Google prepares for Chrome extension Manifest V2 phase out
www.theregister.com
Starting Monday, users will gradually be warned the end is near

The new MV3 architecture reflects Google’s avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant’s attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory’s new software architecture will lead to less effective privacy and content-filtering extensions.

For users of uBlock Origin, which runs on Manifest V2, “options” means using the less capable uBlock Origin Lite, which supports Manifest V3.

  • @ImgonnatrythisEnglish
    1•18 days ago

    Yes all chromium based browsers are chromium based. What do you mean by they are connected to Google? Yes Google provides the chromium code, but my Vivaldi browser isn’t connecting to Google servers or sending them anything

    • DacoTacoEnglish
      0•17 days ago

      What i meant is that chromium is owned and managed by google. If chromium ( and therefor all chromium based browsers ) gets a change, they all do by default. Things like vivaldi or brave will get this change unless they specifically implement ways around it, which i dont think they will.
      Though its way less than chrome, chromium still has links with google and has been found to ping google once in a while even though youre not using google.

      To be accurate, chrome in itself is a chromium based browser. Its chromium with google stuff slapped onto it.

      Its because of this that i find the “but im using [chromium based browser here], so i wont be affected by change x” a false one, because they will.

        • DacoTacoEnglish
          4•17 days ago

          I am corrected, thanks :) Im legit surprised they did anything towards the issue, so thanks for pointing it out.
          That said, ad blocking is only a part of the problem and there are a lot of extensions that work on content loading in browsers that are going to be invalidated with the chromium update that an integrated ad blocking feature ( that i hope you can customise to your hearts content ) will not fix…