Why would a nonprofit org do that?
Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 months agoI’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.
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world 9 months ago
onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 months ago
Money. Google is their biggest source of income.
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They implement Manifest v3 already for compatibility, but without the user-hostile restrictions.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 months ago
It wouldn’t surprise me if they removed features to make popular extensions work. Time will tell.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 9 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?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 months ago
I can only guess that there is a monetary incentive. They get 400 million a year from Google. Why would you compete if you get that kind of money for being the underdog?