Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

Reminder to switch browsers if you haven’t already!

  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It’s Chromium under the hood.

    Funnily, KDE’s early KHTML engine got forked into WebKit, which got forked into Blink, which is at the heart of Chromium. So, we’ve gone full circle…