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Manifest v3 is an effort to make a browser slightly better at its core feature, that it is importantly already fine at, at the cost of making it worse at servin
by jorams 2y ago
Manifest v3 is an effort to make a browser slightly better at its core feature, that it is importantly already fine at, at the cost of making it worse at serving the user. The internet is increasingly user-hostile, and manifest v3 makes it harder to fight back.
- skybrian 2y agoIronically the stricter permissions are because browser extensions sometimes have crap security and the Internet is a hostile place. The browser itself might be pretty much okay, but the extensions are where the terrible code is.
- justinclift 2y agoHow co-incidental that Google chose a model that somehow reduces one of their significant revenue risks, that of ad blockers. Clearly there was no other way... /s