Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too.

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      The MV3 support in firefox is even stricter than in Chrome. I found that chrome will let you sidestep CSP to make an HTTP request. Firefox won’t.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        11 days ago

        I don’t understand what you found, but firefox still supports the web request blocking API for Mv3 extensions, which is what ublock needs.

        • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 days ago

          I was debugging one of my favourite extensions this week to figure out why it didn’t work on firefox. It hadn’t been updated in years, so something changed in firefox in the last few months.

          I assume the Chrome version still works. I’m not installing it.

          • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            if it hadn’t been updated in years then it will be an Mv2 extension, irrelevant to discussion of Mv3 strictness.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 days ago

      They could have sat on 30 second ads every 15 minutes till the cows came home and most of us would have been fine with it.

      They could have sat on premium family for $9 a month for years and we’d have been ok with it.

      They had to be greedy as fuck until none of us want to use their services.

      • Whitebrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Brave is by a company who’s in the business of serving ads.

        Much like google was back in the day, they’re trying to obtain market share with a product that they can easily manipulate after the fact and rely on people not jumping ship as things get progressively worse and worse bit by bit

        Think of the “approved ads” era followed by the “enhanced security features” which made it so your block list couldn’t be updated at a moments notice and now it’s being stripped entirely.

        Better to avoid it entirely and just use Firefox or a derivative thereof

          • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
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            11 days ago

            “Firefox doesn’t have this one feature I like so I will keep using browser made by an ad company. I’m sure there will be no consequences long term”.

            Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin

            “Oh shit. No one could have predicted this!”.

            • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              10 days ago

              Firefox dragged its feet on an extremely useful feature for years.

              Are you seriously trying to act like Firefox hasn’t been continually shooting themselves in the foot the past decade?

              • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
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                10 days ago

                I’ve been using Firefox for decades without issues. Yes, Chrome was a better browser for a long time but Firefox wasn’t that far behind and was absolutely fine browser to use.

                Do you really think Mozilla could win browser race with Google, the fucking second biggest company in the world? Of course Chrome had more features, it had basically unlimited resources at it disposal. But yeah, let’s blame Mozilla for not winning with them decisively.

                YOU are shooting yourself in the foot. You abandoned Firefox for couple of features and soon you will be browsing the web with ads. Come back and tell me how extremely useful Chrome’s features are when can you no longer skip Youtube ads.

          • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            11 days ago

            For a lot of people, it’s an easy transition.

            DDG, Vivaldi, etc. harder transitions.

            Firefox for my parents would result in calls every 3 days for sites that aren’t working right.

            I’m just saying perfect is the enemy of good.