Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024

9to5google.com Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024

The Chrome team has since added new features in response and is ready to disable old Manifest V2 extensions in 2024...

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9to5google.com /2023/11/16/chrome-extensions-disabled/

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Brave adblock is just a fork of uBlock with a whitelist for Brave's partners.
- It works. Enough for me not to bother with anything else.
  
  That’s fine but you should understand that you shouldn’t endorse an inferior product just because you don’t need anything better
  
  I'll endorse whatever I feel like. And.. Inferior? Lol. Just looking at the removed UI of Firefox is enough for me (p.s., I've been a FF user for almost 20 year, since it still was Phoenix).
  By the way, I'd be curious to know what would happen to FF if somewhat uBlock Origin disappeared. Equivalently, the only thing keeping FF alive (apart from sweet Google's money) is the existence of uBlock Origin, i.e. an independent extension created and maintained by volunteers. I'm pretty sure that the day uBO dies, is the day FF disappears
  
  Why not just change the UI then?
  How do you figure it’s u-block?
  
  I won't bother thinkering with CSS which break with updates
  Users shouldn't be in charge to fix Mozilla's fuckups. That's how you loose 70M users since 2019
  The only semi-valid reason people often give to use FF is uBlock Origin. I wonder how many of these FF loyal users would still stay on FF, should uBlock Origin disappear. Would you? At this point, it looks like FF is just an extension for uBO, rather than the opposite.
  Last but not least, for a lot of reasons, I've grown increasingly pissed off with Mozilla, so I simply refuse to give then more underserved market share (after being a user/supporter/advocate for almost 20 years).
  
  If you wouldn’t care to fix an issue then why complain
  Ublock origin is on every browser, who do you think is only on Firefox because of it?
  
  I don't complain. I just switched to a different browser.
  What I mean is that FF is the only major browser which doesn't have an inbuilt adblocker and FF "fans" often brag about uBO working "best" on FF (because of the CNAME support), when there's at least another browser with and in-built adblocker which supports CNAME uncloacking. Without uBO FF usefulness would be exactly 0.
  
  Okey dokey mate

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