Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too.

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

  • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    On my phone I use URLCheck (available in f-droid). You set it as your default browser app, but instead of opening a browser, it opens a popup where you can see the URL, and use some useful tools like removing tracking parameters or automatically rewriting x.com to xcancel.com. The rewritten URL can then just be forwarded to your actual browser (or whatever app is set up to handle that particular URL).

    I still won’t actually open random qr code URLs though, especially not ones from google.

    • Taldan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      How do the rewrites work? Is it like Redirector?

      Would be awesome if I could just import my Redirector regex json file

    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      After doing that, do you have an option to select which application you want to run (browser, video player etc?)

      I use Open Link With, but would love to be able to edit the URL before.

      Edit: From the description I think it might do that. This is neat, thanks for the recommendation.