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Manifest V3 changes are now available in Microsoft Edge
Greetings Insiders,
In continuation of our https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/ to reduce fragment...
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.
