Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

Despite all the links in the article, I didn&#x27;t see one to the official announcement which contains useful information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...</a><p>&quot;Based on input from the extension community, we also increased the number of rulesets for declarativeNetRequest, allowing extensions to bundle up to 330,000 static rules and dynamically add a further 30,000.&quot;

Hopefully this means people return to FireFox, which I&#x27;m surprised many developers abandoned.

Regarding links in the article, it’s definitely lacking (as mentioned links like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...</a>) but also why don’t articles like this offer a consistent set of alternate browsers like Firefox, Safari &amp; all the Chromium derivatives (Brave, DuckDuckGo &amp; Arc) that include ad blockers? I get that there’s a difference between those &amp; the free choice to pick your ad blocker; but eventually everyone grows tired of the cat n mouse game. Why not help promote switching?<p>Almost all of these, for example, have desktop variants:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;browser-choice-screen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;browser-choice-screen&#x2F;</a>

On Mac:<p><pre><code> defaults write com.google.Chrome ExtensionManifestV2Availability -integer 2 </code></pre> You can keep V2 until June2025

I use Firefox and have never understood why so many people use a browser made by a for profit company

What are folks seeing for Firefox market share? Most online sources say FF is around 3%. My tech blog and tech projects see FF at 13%, which highlights that different user groups have differing browser preferences. Degrading ad blockers seems like something that should drive people to FF.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indieweb.social&#x2F;@robalex&#x2F;112472853515037460" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indieweb.social&#x2F;@robalex&#x2F;112472853515037460</a>

Back to Firefox!

I just installed uBlock Origin Lite and didn&#x27;t see any difference between uBlock Origin on the sites I frequent. One thing I like about uBlock Lite is that it defaults to Basic mode which does not require the permission to read and modify data.

Will brave continue to support manifest v2?<p>Also seems like we can maybe expect a ublock browser in the future.

Reminder that the FBI recommends using ad blockers for security reasons.<p>This is Google being evil, and proving that they cannot be trusted with the browser.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34916239">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34916239</a>

Try chromite comes with Adblock plus and bromite legacy built in.Ffupdater at fdroid has it.

How&#x27;s Microsoft Edge affected?

What about chromium alternatives like Arc and Kiwi? Will they keep manifest V2?

Chrome is ahead of the curve, driving innovation and making the internet a better place, again and again and again.

When people realize how insufferable the internet is without an Adblocker they’ll have no choice but switch to Firefox.