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Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by resoluteteeth on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:40PM (#43208267)
> I wonder how long they’ll maintain manifest v2 compatibility.

https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

They are going to keep it enabled until google removes the code from chromium in June. Then it sounds like they are going to try to use other means to offer "limited MV2 support" but there are some issues, including the fact that they don't have their own extension store (and presumably the chrome one won't allow mv2 extensions to be updated) so I'm not sure to what degree that will actually work.

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Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by YetAnotherNick on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:24PM (#43212464)
Also maintaining a browser fork is not work to be taken lightly specially if it touches such core and security critical functionality like extensions.
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