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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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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.

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[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Any PC I assist with has FF/UBO when I walk away. Now I have to strip out the AI shit too. So maybe I walk away with Waterfox on there now. Librewolf is too much for the average folk.

[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago

Tip: if you install Firefox from scratch frequently, you should build a custom user.js where you disable all the stuff you don't like, and then just drop the file in the profile directory with a script, instead of manually going through all the settings pages each time.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not having tried either, could you please summarize the differences?

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Simply put, you can wratchet down the security settings on FF manually, or use a fork that has done that for you. Waterfox is preset with pretty decent settings and Librewolf dials it to max protect. It’s a bit of work to relax it and that’d frustrate an average user. Waterfox is a fair compromise.