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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by jqpabc123 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:56AM (#43344568)
Firefox is open source, but it's not an open source project. It's a Mozilla project --- effectively totally funded by Google.

*When* Google asks them to remove manifest v2, what do you think they'll do?

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by notpushkin on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @12:11PM (#43344746)
> When Google asks them to remove manifest v2, what do you think they'll do?

It’s even more pointless than removing it from Chromium though: Firefox users would just switch to a fork that still supports it, or to a fork that supports blockingWebRequest APIs on v3 extensions, or to a fork that implements some other ad blocking method. With Chromium, they at least have Chrome users, many of whow wouldn’t want to even bother. (Those who do have migrated to forks already)

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