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> Chrome extensions are also thriving Yeah, especially with Manifest v3 :) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-

> Chrome extensions are also thriving Yeah, especially with Manifest v3 :) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...

tapoxi 4y ago
This post is over a year old. Requiring Manifest v3 has been indefinitely postponed. There are arguments for using Firefox, but if people keep crying wolf about Manifest v3 before it hits and has a negative impact, especially over such a long timespan, it loses its impact.
- BarryMilo 4y ago
  "Mandatory beatings have been indefinitely postponed"
  - dbsmith83 4y ago
    I have seen this phrase in several places, but cannot find the origin of the phrase. Where is it from?
    - trarmp 4y ago
      It could well be a riff on the more famous, "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
    - monetus 4y ago
      I thought it was an upside down version of "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
      - dbsmith83 4y ago
        Oh that's it.. no wonder why I couldn't find it. I didn't have enough coffee this morning.
- VyseofArcadia 4y ago
  Yeah, there was some blowback to make the big G reconsider, but don't you worry. I'm sure they're cooking up something similarly nefarious to accomplish their goal. Google is the world's biggest ad company. Sufficiently few people use ad blocking that I don't think it's an existential threat, but as long as the shareholders demand infinite growth, getting rid of ad blocking will be seductive to Google.
  - jjoonathan 4y ago
    The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. - Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine Ditto for extensible browsers.
  - freedude 4y ago
    I feel like they lost me when they got rid of "Don't be Evil" as their motto. I realized their slide down the slippery slope was well underway.
- frx 4y ago
  > Requiring Manifest v3 has been indefinitely postponed. From docs [1]: "As of January 17, 2022 the Chrome Web Store has stopped accepting new Manifest V2 extensions." [1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/
alexelcu 4y ago
Mv3 blocking has some advantages, and may be enough for most people, currently, at least until things escalate. Mv3's blocking capabilities are similar with Safari's, and have the advantage of performance and security. You can see it for yourself by trying uBO Lite: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite... This extension is Mv3 compliant and decent enough. It blocks Google's trackers and ads, it blocks YouTube ads. Also, keep in mind that other Chromium browsers have ad-blocking built-in, e.g., Brave and Vivaldi. And Google's problem will be that all of Chrome's competition will have better adblocking as a selling point (except for Edge). So they can't keep Mv3 functionality too ineffective.
charcircuit 4y ago
Which ironically could have solved the network performance problems that the OP is experiencing.

tapoxi 4y ago

This post is over a year old. Requiring Manifest v3 has been indefinitely postponed. There are arguments for using Firefox, but if people keep crying wolf about Manifest v3 before it hits and has a negative impact, especially over such a long timespan, it loses its impact.

BarryMilo 4y ago
"Mandatory beatings have been indefinitely postponed"
- dbsmith83 4y ago
  I have seen this phrase in several places, but cannot find the origin of the phrase. Where is it from?
  - trarmp 4y ago
    It could well be a riff on the more famous, "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
  - monetus 4y ago
    I thought it was an upside down version of "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
    - dbsmith83 4y ago
      Oh that's it.. no wonder why I couldn't find it. I didn't have enough coffee this morning.
VyseofArcadia 4y ago
Yeah, there was some blowback to make the big G reconsider, but don't you worry. I'm sure they're cooking up something similarly nefarious to accomplish their goal. Google is the world's biggest ad company. Sufficiently few people use ad blocking that I don't think it's an existential threat, but as long as the shareholders demand infinite growth, getting rid of ad blocking will be seductive to Google.
- jjoonathan 4y ago
  The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. - Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine Ditto for extensible browsers.
- freedude 4y ago
  I feel like they lost me when they got rid of "Don't be Evil" as their motto. I realized their slide down the slippery slope was well underway.
frx 4y ago
> Requiring Manifest v3 has been indefinitely postponed. From docs [1]: "As of January 17, 2022 the Chrome Web Store has stopped accepting new Manifest V2 extensions." [1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/

alexelcu 4y ago

Mv3 blocking has some advantages, and may be enough for most people, currently, at least until things escalate. Mv3's blocking capabilities are similar with Safari's, and have the advantage of performance and security. You can see it for yourself by trying uBO Lite: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite... This extension is Mv3 compliant and decent enough. It blocks Google's trackers and ads, it blocks YouTube ads. Also, keep in mind that other Chromium browsers have ad-blocking built-in, e.g., Brave and Vivaldi. And Google's problem will be that all of Chrome's competition will have better adblocking as a selling point (except for Edge). So they can't keep Mv3 functionality too ineffective.

charcircuit 4y ago

Which ironically could have solved the network performance problems that the OP is experiencing.