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Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

On June 3rd, Chrome(ium) users will start being informed that their MV2 extensions will soon stop to function. uBlock Origin (and others) will lose the "Featured" badge.
The remaining MV2 extensions will be gradually disabled in the "coming months", with the last deadline being the beginning of next year. (Expect that uBO will probably not last that long).

What options do you have if you still want to use uBlock Origin?

Firefox (and up to date forks) have no plans to end support for the webrequest API that uBO requires.
Brave browser will allow MV2 extensions for now. I still have no info on if they are going to use their own store or require manual installation/updating of MV2 extensions.
If you use Chrome. By enabling enterprise policy ExtensionManifestV2Availability, you should be able to extend support till June 2025.
uBlock Origin Lite (uBOL) is a MV3 extension that is much more limited than uBO and is not intended to be a replacement for uBO. These limitations are described in detail in the FAQ for uBOL: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

for those who come and read through these comments, on top of considering not using a chromium-based browser, you could also:

configure your own DNS resolver e.g. NextDNS
go further and use a fork of firefox e.g. librewolf

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately DNS blocking is not nearly as powerful as an adblock extension which can manipulate the DOM and CSS directly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

this is true. however it can filter calls to ad services and block them at the dns level before they’re loaded in the browser

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Sites are going to move ads to shared domains, now that chrome users are stuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Sadly corporate environments mean there is not choice for many users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or just use Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

many people here parrot the same things relentlessly. there is no issue with choosing firefox as your primary driver. every user here can decide on what they want for themselves.

i am offering other options as the suggestions in this thread (and threads like these) are homogenous.

Firefox has telemetry settings built-in which you can switch off. LibreWolf strips the telemetry options away and focuses on obfuscating your browser fingerprint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's just that I feel like if someone is still using freaking Chrome in 2024 then asking them to use something even more obscure than FF might be a bridge too far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

LibreWolf is just a fork of Firefox (one of many) which tries to improve its privacy features.

I am not asking anyone to use this, just merely offering an alternate option. Everyone who accesses the internet has used a browser. What makes a difference for the average user is the GUI and UX.

If you use vanilla Firefox and don’t tweak the settings, often your DNS will be resolved by either Google, Cloudflare or your ISP.

There is no perfect solution, only optimal ones.

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