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That's basically exactly what Brave (the only Chromium browser still supporting uBO) is doing to support uBlock Origin. But it's flimsy and likely has an expira
by culi 2mo ago
That's basically exactly what Brave (the only Chromium browser still supporting uBO) is doing to support uBlock Origin. But it's flimsy and likely has an expiration date.
- zarzavat 2mo agoAFAIK they are using the built-in support which Google still maintains even if they don't expose it. My point is that when MV3 was announced there was an assumption that maintaining a Chromium fork to continue supporting MV2 would be too much work and too expensive. But now with LLMs that's no longer a safe assumption. The non-Chrome chromium based browsers can fork chromium and add back MV2. No need for any expiration date.
- hgomersall 2mo agoOr you could just use Firefox.
- zarzavat 2mo agoThe only reason that Google keep Firefox around is because they find it beneficial for antitrust reasons. We should prepare for a future without Firefox, because one day it won't be there anymore.
- nickthegreek 2mo agoby supporting google?
- culi 2mo agoIt's not because of LLMs. It's because Google only stripped MV2 support but didn't strip the webRequest API that is at the center of this whole thing. It's pretty simple to maintain a fork that just supports the MV2 standard if the APIs are still there. If Google ever decides to finally remove the API, it would certainly be a much larger challenge
- yellowcakex 2mo ago[dead]