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.
9 Jun 2026 23:33
Pretty fucked up considering how much malware and scammy bullshit come though ads.
9 Jun 2026 23:55
Who here actually uses these shitass browsers?
9 Jun 2026 23:56
The more you tighten your grip, Google, the more ad revenue will slip through your fingers.
9 Jun 2026 23:58
Yep, sorry but not sorry. Advertisements aren’t safe. The industry has been ruined by bad actors and it’s a shame, but also not my problem.
9 Jun 2026 23:58
It's everyone's problem in a way...
10 Jun 2026 00:05
In other words, it won’t affect me or most of the people who use uBlock.
10 Jun 2026 00:09
Basically everyone who's not a techy person (unless their PC was set up by someone who is I suppose).
10 Jun 2026 00:30
I see a lot of comments (justifiably) touting firefox's superiority... but the performance difference is night and day.
My main pc has very weak hardware, and my browser is the most resource intensive application I run. In my environment, I can't leave firefox open with other heavy apps running simultaneously, but I can leave chrome open.
I've used firefox for decades in the past, but the gap is huge and it doesn't look like Mozilla will make the engine changes necessary to close it. Idk if things have changed, but I remember when they axed the Servo team.
I've been using Ungoogled Chromium and I'm hoping this doesn't affect me for a while... but if I have to choose between ads and closing my browser to run heavy apps, I guess I'll be reinstalling firefox.
10 Jun 2026 00:33
the average person on lemmy probably cares more about privacy than the average internet dweller.
10 Jun 2026 00:34
I worked in ads only a few months and learned how fucked that industry was. They're basically given license to just run scripts in your browser, sucking as much info as they can. The fact that it hasn't been regulated to hell is shocking, and truly a failure of all leaders.
10 Jun 2026 00:40
The average internet dweller doesn't even know they've lost privacy.
_after all, their post has a delete button next to it and their messages say private! They wouldn't just lie_
10 Jun 2026 00:41
Good thing I don't use any of those shitty browsers.
10 Jun 2026 00:43
Lemmy
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