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.
the average person on lemmy probably cares more about privacy than the average internet dweller.
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
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Even many, many lemmy users believe there is a semblance of privacy on the internet today, or in national businesses with modern IP camera tech. It's all gone.
They have enough telemetry to know who you are between all the details the browser gives them. Hell, most people don't even know what a tracking pixel is or how it has been used for well over a decade.
We're at the point with machine learning that the resources required to process all of these datapoints is trivial even when done onboard fairly cheap devices.
I worked on ad stuff for a very short time where they could tell if they showed you an ad a year ago, and another one, and then if you went to a store, that it was all connected. They would know if you went into a store with presence detection that their ad was working.
Where do their messages still say private? I've not seen that in years. The initialism "PM" seemed to get replaced by "DM" overnight. Also though, many of them didn't lose privacy. Anyone, at the very least in USA, younger than the Patriot Act never had privacy to begin with.