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Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] BananaTrifleViolin 151 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Manifest V2 phase out is a big deal, as Google is pushing towards Manifest 3 only. Google's version of Manifest 3 is hobbled by removing WebRequest blocking which breaks privacy and ad blocking tools - an obvious benefit to Google as an Ad and data harvesting company.

Firefox is implementing Manifest 3 with WebRequest blocking, as well as supporting Google's hobbled version declarativeNetRequest to allow compatibility with chrome extensions.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know there is no plan to phase out Manifest V2 at Mozilla. As long as V2 and V3 are active in parallel it shouldn't have a negative Impact on adblockers etc.

[–] Moreless -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Until MV2 API is shut off completely. What will FireFox's V2 do then?

[–] Spotlight7573 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/05/14/manifest-v3-updates/

We also wanted to take this opportunity to address a couple common questions we’ve been seeing in the community, specifically around the webRequest API and MV2:

  1. The webRequest API is not on a deprecation path in Firefox
  2. Mozilla has no current plans to deprecate MV2 as mentioned in our previous MV3 update

That said, I believe Firefox users have gotten a lot of benefits by having extensions made that work in both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers. I don't believe there will still be as much effort for a Firefox-only extension but I believe there will be a sufficient number of motivated users and developers to still develop blockers and other extensions that take advantage of Firefox continuing to support MV2 and webRequest.

[–] RustyNova 38 points 5 months ago

But at least Firefox is just compatibility, and not phasing out v2

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it's still worrisome. This makes Firefox a lynchpin for whether ad blocking works for the foreseeable future on the whole web.