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Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought (tube.kockatoo.org)

submitted 10 months ago by ozoned@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

why are people that allergic to firefox?

vivaldi is chrome with extra steps

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz -4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Mostly because the browsing experience IMO is much much worse with Firefox. I tried extensions to get functionality back, it made it worse - slower, buggy, extensions would stop being developed etc. I wish Firefox was better, I really do. But IME it's frozen functionality like it's 2010 or so. Like, they have tabs, who hoo. I really find save/restore, multi window control, tab stacks, sessions, workspaces, and easy UI config pretty important in day to day use. That said, I also think ads are a deal breaker, but I really wonder if this won't bring back some of the ad-blocking proxies you run locally or something.

Or, someone forks chromium to keep Manifest v2 or whatever.

[–] driveway@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Vivaldi doesn't have to use v3, Brave won't. If Vivaldi does upgrade to v3, that should tell you something.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I use both Firefox and Chrome-based browsers and I haven't come across any major differences in functionality. What are all these things Chrome can do that Firefox can't?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

those are all things that don't exist on most browsers without many extensions