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Manifest V3 changes are now available in Microsoft Edge
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Even if browser provides great level of security and privacy , in many cases due to privacy and security issues with extensions , users would be at risk.
Therefore, such feature is very valuable.
It also blocks great deal of attacks and malicious actors.
Some developers might complain and not happy with these improvements, but user's privacy and security are higher priority.
The same potential developers that might complain themselves create extensions that protect user privacy and security from 3rd party websites.
Hello HotCakeX
There is despair on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/jbrffh/manifest_v3_changes_are_now_available_to_test_in/- Rightfully. A lot of people switched from chrome for this reason. To also explicitly use Ublock Origin. Given Raymond Hill's assurance that he would not compromise on functionality to bow down to these changes, I am curious as to what he thinks of this. If he will not compromise, then the only way would be to move on to another browser for UBO users or find something else to replace UBO.
ublock origin's developer has good intentions sure, it's a great extension and I've been using it non-stop in the past few years. but we are not dealing with only 1 developer here. there are thousands of developers and many of them have malicious thoughts and intentions. these adjustments will ensure user's safety against all 3rd party developers.
Firefox, for now, lets ublock origin slide but they are not that stupid, they perfectly know that there are extension developers out there that will target Firefox extensions once Chromium curbs their abilities.
plus, Edge users don't have anything to worry about, Edge's tracking prevention, specially on Strict level, along with exceptions list and domain wildcarding, is a really great companion to offset any possible loss of functionality from ublock origin.
Lol let people talk, they don't have enough information neither do they know the full story, judging from the comments, it's just the ordinary typical whining and resistance against a new technology.
some say "switch to Firefox" again makes me laugh.
people on Edge don't have to worry about anything. use ublock origin which is the best adblocker/anti-malware extension out there in combination with Tracking prevention, that's enough.
Manifest V3's benefits outweigh its disadvantages, greatly.
- https://www.ghostery.com/ad-blocker-performance-study-in-response-to-manifest-v3-finds-that-ghosterys-ad-blocker-beats-the-competition/
