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I assume this will not affect Edge? Or will this effect Chromium in general?
by partiallypro 3y ago
I assume this will not affect Edge? Or will this effect Chromium in general?
- mattl 3y agoI believe Chromium-based browsers can choose to ignore this. IIRC, Vivaldi already said they would?
- Dalewyn 3y agoThey can, but that means dealing with the overhead that comes with maintaining a divergent and ever increasingly different code base from the forking point. Every single browser except for Safari and Firechrome today is based off Chromium because devs are either lazy or incapable of writing and maintaining their own browser engines. So can browsers forked from Chromium ignore this and keep MV2? Sure. Will they? Hell no.
- jfoster 3y agoGoogle pay other browser vendors significant amounts to be the default search engine. If any browser were too far ahead of Chrome on blocking advertising, wouldn't Google care substantially less about being the default search engine on that browser? Ad blockers switch off the primary revenue stream for browsers & websites alike. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933206/google-apple-search-deal-safari-18-billion https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933206/google-apple-se...
- jfoster 3y agoI haven't been following too closely, but as far as I know, MV3 is coming to pretty much all browsers, including Firefox. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/10/31/begin-your-mv3-migration-by-implementing-new-features-today/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/10/31/begin-your-mv3-mi...