Thankfully I switched off of Chrome a long time ago.
I’ve only ever used it sparingly in case some banking or other important site was all fucked up from my privacy extensions in FF
Same here! I generally use hardened firefox and kept the Edge if some site acts weird in FF
This is why we need alternative browser engines like Firefox. If Chromium becomes the only game in town then Google will become the gatekeeper to the internet. While Chromium is technically open source, its direction is driven entirely by Google with community having little to no say in the process.
Of course, it is always possible to fork Chromium, and a few companies like Brave have done so. However, these are largely skinning efforts that don’t change the internal workings of the engine. In case where Google makes significant changes that are harmful to the users, the effort of maintaining a fork will rise significantly.
Another problem is that once you have a single browsing engine then the standard becomes whatever the engine is doing. We’ve already lived through this with IE dominating the browser market. I don’t see why anybody would want to go back to that.
Is that a real timeline? That’s crazy
What is MV2
MV2 is an API for browser extensions. The timeline in the image comes from Google’s MV3 documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/
More information:
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/11/manifest-v3-open-web-politics-sheeps-clothing
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
- https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-update/
(tldr: chrome is removing APIs needed by ad blocking extensions, but firefox isn’t)
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