>Benefits of the Manifest V3
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Tom here lists all the benefits of V3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFqmfyM4TQ
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Tom here lists all the benefits of V3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFqmfyM4TQ
I'm sure the future without MV2 will have users launching .exe files to mod Chrome which is much much worse (similar to what's going on with Discord and other Electron app mods).
> The benefits exist if you treat the user like an absolute buffoon that can't handle installing extensions. If you really wanted to, just put a massive warning screen before installing extensions that require dangerous permissions.
But... what different is it than installing software? And "big scary warning" is what one of things Windows UAC brought you. It helps some folks, but otherwise it is "just push OK".
I like how Android/iOS handles - I can approve/reject specific permission upon request and only grant it while using app/this time only.
You'd be surprised by the amount of people that are shocked by the fact that an extension they installed has blanket permissions.
The current one just lists "Access to all websites" as a normal permission as if it's no big deal.
Average internet (hence chrome user) don't even know what mod means. They don't care about ads (at least not enough to actively make any change). If the ads become too annoying they'll just skip the video or won't visit a website again and the people serving the ads know that.
43% of internet users are blocking ads. It's not only tech people who are doing this. https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-ad-blockers/
Which is even more problematic. Because they will literally click random exe people send to them. And also the reason Edge decides to default to reject random unpopular unsigned exe downloaded from internet.