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   Fabio Manganiello (fabio@manganiello.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 20:40:11 JST Fabio Manganiello

   “We understand migrations of this magnitude can be challenging“

   No, this specific migration should have never happened in the first place.

   Manifest V3 is an absolute disaster that makes developers’ lives hard for no reason other than Google being desperate to crackdown on adblockers.

   No additional security. No additional features. Nothing to make the pill sweeter. Just Google abusing its dominant position in the browser market to relentlessly push for years for a new standard that makes HTTP requests and intercepting requests at runtime ridiculously hard, so it can tame uBlock and friends. The whole declarativeNetRequest API that replaces the dear ol’ webRequest API is the equivalent of tying developers’ hands behind their back with the only purpose of increasing friction.

   Manifest V3 is a technological abomination that greatly limits what extensions can do, and it should have never seen the light of the day.

   My browser extensions will stubbornly remain Manifest V2 only. Even if that means being compatible only with Firefox. I wish that more developers did the same, so the Chromium-based extensions ecosystem may become as barren as it deserves to be, and more people would switch to alternative browsers, but of course nobody likes to say no to the browser that serves ~90% of the market. I just hope that the folks at Mozilla won’t get strange ideas and will keep supporting Manifest V2 forever.

   https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html