Users do want MV3. The people complaining about it are in the minority.
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pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 month agoChromium (Google Chrome’s base) is also open source.
And yet, we’re still at a corporation’s mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google’s fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile.
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Users don’t know what the fuck Manifest is period. They just click the internet button. And for the longest time that meant the E with a loop around it. Now that means the multicolored circle.
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Users know that they want more security. MV3 makes a major of users that use Chrome safer from malicious extensions.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I get what you’re saying, but the average person has no idea what it is, why they should care, or anything about it. All they see is Google making their extensions stop working. And when that includes some of the most popular extensions, that directly affect Googles revenue, they’re going to think that’s the reason.
The overwhelming majority of users get their extensions from the Chrome Web Store… Which Google has full control over. Users expect them to be blocking almost all malicious extensions before they’re even available to download.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Why the hell would a user want MV3?
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because it makes a majority of users that use Chrome much safer. Do you do any basic research? Do you need me to point you to the getting started guide?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
It doesn’t though. An adblocker is your VERY most important tool in a good security posture. Googles playing any users who ask for MV3 for fools
parpol@programming.dev 1 month ago
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Except now you have to maintain a branch that’s missing everything after that release upstream.