Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m confident that Mozilla will follow suite sooner or later to make it easier for extension developers to make extensions for both browsers. Mozilla did that when manifest v1 came along, removed a bunch of functionality from Jetpack, and aligned with Google.

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  • mint_tamas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They implement Manifest v3 already for compatibility, but without the user-hostile restrictions.

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It wouldn’t surprise me if they removed features to make popular extensions work. Time will tell.

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      • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What do you suppose Firefox’s goal would be in removing features for the end user? Isn’t their purpose to compete with Chrome and be better?

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  • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would a nonprofit org do that?

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Money. Google is their biggest source of income.

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