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Who wants to be that 'for your safety and convenience' will be part of the press release?

manifest v3: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/

> Manifest V3 is part of a shift in the philosophy behind how we approach end-user security and privacy.

it requrires you to declaratively specify what to block in advance, so it's going to be pretty easy to write some logic that can't be declaratively specified

I suspect killing the adblockers is the entire reason behind it

Every time google pulls a trick like this they are inviting regulatory intervention.

glad firefox is allowing and end-run around this

With Firefoxes market share continuously declining, and AFAICT no real indication they're going to be able to turn things around, I fear it's only a matter of time before they pull an Edge/Opera and turn into another Chromium reskin to cut costs.

What Firefox needs is to be spun out of Mozilla, to get competent management and a way to directly donate to FF without also ending up sponsoring all of their pet projects.

No doubt open source "firefox" will continue to exists, even if it mean bugfixes only. I plan to use that (Haven't used non-Firefox on Android ever, except by mistake/deception).

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