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Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users (www.theregister.com)

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The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture will lead to less effective privacy and content-filtering extensions.

For users of uBlock Origin, which runs on Manifest V2, "options" means using the less capable uBlock Origin Lite, which supports Manifest V3.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

mobile Chromium doesn't have ublock anyway...

Kiwi browser on Android is Chromium based & has had the ability to add extensions such as uBlock for years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Indeed, though I prefer skipping extensions on mobile because (as said above) native implementations tend to be faster and more power efficient.

Ublock is probably an exception though. It's quite fast.