Comment by titaniczero | Hacker News Reader

Comment by titaniczero | Hacker News Reader

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Does anyone know what is Edge's take on MV3? Will they just leave it untouched and obey or do they have alternative paths planned for adblockling like Brave (In addition to the native blocker, Brendan Eich also said that they will "put back the lost functionality for uBO, uMatrix and other legit extensions" [1]).

I have a feeling that Edge will become mainstream in the near future because it is the default browser on Windows (getting IE monopolistic vibes again!) and people is using and even loving it. I think both Edge and Chrome will decide the future for the web. Firefox and Brave, unfortunately, are not mainstream enough to make their decisions count.

[1] https://twitter.com/brendaneich/status/1134141335881912320

Funny how the only browsers that matter are the ones shipped by default by OS vendors... almost like the whole Windows/IE antitrust action was for show. Or I guess the OS vendors realized being an oligopoly is a good workaround for dated antitrust policy.

> antitrust action was for show.

People often forget the US underwent an administrative change between the judgement and enforcement. Microsoft spent a lot of "think tank" money on influencing the new regimes enforcement mentality, not only on their own issue, but on monopolies in general.

It was, from my recollection, definitely not for show.

One reason people forget is that the Department of Justice announced the settlement (wrist slap) with Microsoft literally a few days before the 9/11 attacks, and so the case was wiped from the news along with everything else except 9/11. (I'm not suggesting a conspiracy, just that the public never had a chance to be angry about the settlement.)

Edge will indeed migrate over to v3:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-c...

As I understand, Edge will also migrate to MV3 completely.

Also, I am not entirely sure other Chromium-based browsers will be able to maintain MV2 compatibility in the long run.

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