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[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) What do you mean? Manifest v2 and v3 are still available in other Chromium browsers permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] encelado748@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) V3 yes, obviously. V3 is what caused the reduction in API that prevented proper adblocking. V3 adblocker are less capable, cannot do dynamic blocking and delegate the blocking to the browser that can impose rules. Brave work around this by directly injecting the adblocker in the browser, bypassing extensions API entirely. Other browsers do not do that. As of today I do not know of any browser maintaining a fork of v2. When Google killed it with v3 it was gone. Which browser are you talking about? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) I know Helium still supports V2 extensions including being bundled with uBlock Origin pre-installed. That and Brave are the only ones I really use or recommend so I can't account for anything else. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] encelado748@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago Both of them simply patch support back in, but they will not be able to do that once the code is actually removed from chromium upstream on later versions. They are not going to maintain it. Helium will take Brave route and integrate the Adblock (probably brave one that is open source). But this is irrelevant, at the end of the day the main topic is the fact that google decided v2 had to go, and other derivatives browser had to comply as they have not enough resources to maintain a full fork of chromium. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] encelado748@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) V3 yes, obviously. V3 is what caused the reduction in API that prevented proper adblocking. V3 adblocker are less capable, cannot do dynamic blocking and delegate the blocking to the browser that can impose rules. Brave work around this by directly injecting the adblocker in the browser, bypassing extensions API entirely. Other browsers do not do that. As of today I do not know of any browser maintaining a fork of v2. When Google killed it with v3 it was gone. Which browser are you talking about? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) I know Helium still supports V2 extensions including being bundled with uBlock Origin pre-installed. That and Brave are the only ones I really use or recommend so I can't account for anything else. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] encelado748@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago Both of them simply patch support back in, but they will not be able to do that once the code is actually removed from chromium upstream on later versions. They are not going to maintain it. Helium will take Brave route and integrate the Adblock (probably brave one that is open source). But this is irrelevant, at the end of the day the main topic is the fact that google decided v2 had to go, and other derivatives browser had to comply as they have not enough resources to maintain a full fork of chromium. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) I know Helium still supports V2 extensions including being bundled with uBlock Origin pre-installed. That and Brave are the only ones I really use or recommend so I can't account for anything else. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] encelado748@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago Both of them simply patch support back in, but they will not be able to do that once the code is actually removed from chromium upstream on later versions. They are not going to maintain it. Helium will take Brave route and integrate the Adblock (probably brave one that is open source). But this is irrelevant, at the end of the day the main topic is the fact that google decided v2 had to go, and other derivatives browser had to comply as they have not enough resources to maintain a full fork of chromium. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] encelado748@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago Both of them simply patch support back in, but they will not be able to do that once the code is actually removed from chromium upstream on later versions. They are not going to maintain it. Helium will take Brave route and integrate the Adblock (probably brave one that is open source). But this is irrelevant, at the end of the day the main topic is the fact that google decided v2 had to go, and other derivatives browser had to comply as they have not enough resources to maintain a full fork of chromium. permalink fedilink source parent