Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

Reminder to switch browsers if you haven’t already!

  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    Nope, it doesn’t count. The only reason Safari/WebKit isn’t considered a fork of Chrome/Blink is that Chrome/Blink is a fork of Safari/WebKit instead.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I’m sure they’ve diverged enough for it to be pretty significant compared to the Chromium browsers

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      So it wasn’t, like, forked hard enough that now after the years it counts as a different browser? Expect it to render pages ‘n’ stuff pretty much like Chrome?

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      They’ve been separate for over a decade, and even before that they were heavily customizing it. They’re cousins, but absolutely not close enough at this point to be considered the same.