Google's Manifest V3 platform is clobbering many popular extensions. Here's why and what you can do about it.
  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    89·
    2 months ago

    One of my co-workers switched to UBlock Lite instead of UBlock Origin and now the ads are back.

    Now he’s working on switching to a non-Google browser.

    Good job, Google. You have killed Google for yet another former customer.

    • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      You are not Google’s customer. You’re the product they sell to their customers.

      Edit: Made this comment before refreshing the post to see the person above me. What they said.

    • stealth_cookies@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I 'm forced to use Chrome on my work laptop and it is the worst browser (even before the disabling of Manifest V2), but for security I can’t access many systems with even another chromium based browser . Funnily IT forces an extension on us and it isn’t compatible with Manifest V3.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    I don’t have any chrome extensions because I don’t use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.

  • Sliversun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    Glad that I moved to firefox 4 months ago and then to zen browser last week to avoid plugins removal. Haven’t looked back

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know if it’s related, but an extension we use at work called Redirector was just disabled a few weeks ago for being “unsupported.” It’s the only reason I even used Chrome, so I guess I can go back to Safari. At home I only use Firefox.

      • excess0680@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        If you’re talking about the extension that looks like an R with a green arrow, the author passed away a couple years ago. https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector/issues/329

        The repo has a new maintainer but there’s been no new releases since the maintainer doesn’t have access to the extension release pages. No surprise that a MV3 version hasn’t been worked on.

        It still works on Firefox, though.

        • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Hey, thanks! I don’t know if I can use Firefox at work. I’ll have to see. Could be a good time to push Firefox there.

      • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long time. I thought it died due to it being a privacy nightmare or something. There was some controversy at least.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Hasn’t it been dead for years? You can probably get the same functionality with other apps, depending on what you use it for.

  • LinyosT@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    The sad thing is that people will see this and still try to find a way to keep using chrome instead of just moving to a browser that actually respects them.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Yeah they essentially killed about half the extensions I use. I have to use the browser for work.

  • emanuga@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Zen Browser on Mac and Orion on iOS. ublock origin and NextDNS on for both - no ads, no adblocker detected. Ever.

  • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I’m just worried about how zdnet presumes to know what I think.

    Google kills things, that’s what they do. They can get fucked.