Does it really make a huge difference to keep supporting Manifest Version 2?
I've installed uBlock Origin Lite in my Edge browser and I don't see any ads there either.
I've installed uBlock Origin Lite in my Edge browser and I don't see any ads there either.
- MV2 version has sophisticated scripts to not only block ads but prevent tracking. With the lite version you might not be seeing most ads but you are certainly being tracked more
- MV3 version might "hide" ads but the MV2 version is blocking requests from every being made. All those stats you hear about improved battery and reduced bandwidth usage with an adblocker are only true for the MV2 version
- CNAME uncloaking is only done with MV2 version. That means when advertisers on sites cloak their CNAME, you won't be able to block them
- filters lists on Lite can only be updated when you install an update. In MV2 version it updates the lists dynamically. Advertisers change their domains all the time
The only thing you get is an arms race which Big Tech will always win because they have infinite budgets to keep the music playing.
Imagine believing the only way to change the world is voting and politics
Without the webRequest API, it is unable to intercept raw web requests on the fly or query live DNS/CNAME records or dynamically reroute matching rules. The MV3 version is basically just a static list of rules that is only updated when you update the extension itself