ericjmoreyGoogle Resuming the transition to Manifest V3 - Chrome for Developers
RandomLegend [He/Him]can they please just like… don’t?
Seems like something they can’t stop pushing because … reasons.
VexzWhy would they want to stop? This is their fight against adblockers and on Chromium based browsers it's an effective way so of course they keep pushing. ;)
I don’t want to hear the realistic argumentation of why this is proceeding. I want to live in my fantasy headspace where comments like this can stop superpower megacorps from being assholes…okay? 😅
That’s what happens in a quasi monopoly. They would suffer no consequences from it and the others like Mozilla would just have to follow along.
Mozilla will want to be API-compatible, but there’s nothing inherent to the API that requires the arbitrary content-blocking limitation that Google put in. So, Mozilla will be API-compatible without adopting this shitty limitation.
Manifest V3 isn’t just an arbitrary limitation on numbers; it also includes limitations on allowing the lists to be downloaded dynamically, and on blocking elements on pages dynamically
Interesting, I didn’t know that, but it doesn’t really change anything about my comment. Mozilla can offer APIs in addition to what Manifest v3 offers, allowing extensions that want to do these things to do them. It’s already the case today, for example, that uBlock Origin makes use of additional APIs for more effective ad blocking on Firefox.
can someone explain to me why manifest v3 will disable uBlock?
can someone refresh me on why exactly migrating to manifest v3 is bad?
From what I've read it will disable ad-blocking extensions.
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Mozilla is implementing it differently blog.mozilla.org/…/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-n…
They have published a guide extensionworkshop.com/…/manifest-v3-migration-gui…
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Google has also started delaying the approval of revisions of privacy-related addons. This is an all out war against user privacy. Everyone, please stop using or promoting this Trojan malware called chrome or anything based on it.
Most people aren’t going to know or care, but getting the word out that Firefox allows better, more useful extensions due to recent changes by Alphabet will make a difference.
It’s true that most people won’t know or care. But the only ones who can make a difference are the ones who understand the situation. We shouldn’t assume that nobody will listen to us. If we tell a hundred people, perhaps 5 will listen - and even that’s a pessimistic assumption. Even such small changes add up in the long run. The last nail on the coffin of our freedom will be the silence of those with the wisdom to recognize its erosion.
People will definitely listen if the experience is better because of the extensions.