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isn't Google Chrome's Manifest V3 update going to limit effectiveness of uBlock Origin and similar content blockers?

• contravariant 5y ago
  Well obviously you should be using a browser that actually supports uBlock Origin for it to work.
  • propogandist 5y ago
    the chromium variant I use will be impacted; FF is adopting Manifest V3 too, it seems - https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-update/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat...
    • kxrm 5y ago
      They are adopting v3 but the important aspect is they are not deprecating the old v2 functionality. Chrome is deprecating v2 which will break these types of extensions.
    • oneweekwonder 5y ago
      From the blog post, FF will keep the functionality to block web requests, unlike chrome. > After discussing this with several content blocking extension developers, we have decided to implement DNR and continue maintaining support for blocking webRequest