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Manifest V3: Web Request Changes
So, Google plan to introduce manifest v3 that limit extensions blocking capability by removing webRequest API and replacing it with super limited declarativeNetRequest. Please, please don't remov...
Not an official response from Microsoft, but at least a personal opinion from a Microsoft employee working on the Edge team about this topic: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Google-to-restrict-ad-blocking-in-Chromium/m-p/688997/highlight/true#M4955
Microsoft Edge Dev Team posted some details about this changes to manifest v3 and the new edge on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c094uf/hi_reddit_were_the_team_behind_microsoft_edge_and/er34xbw/
as its not a clear statement that they will support manifest v2, they definitely are going to support extensions with the strong ability for blocking ads.
i already switched from chrome to new edge chromium.
- It looks like they won't support manifest v2. They are a part of the Coalition for Better Ads (which includes Google and Facebook). In reply to:
"Are you maintaining a fork of Chromium in order to exclude the stupid changes like Google’s decision to cripple the webRequest API in order to stop people blocking ads?"
they said this:
"We have chosen not to fork since we don’t want to fragment the community, but our infrastructure does allow us to maintain patches for cases where we have a different point of view on individual changes (we talked about the webRequest/Manifest V3 changes in a couple other places. In general we plan to upstream our web platform improvements to the Chromium project. "
Without an adblocker, I have no reason to use Edge. I even left Bing as my search engine and disabled my adblocker for it. I just wish Firefox's performance were better and that Brave were less annoying. Edge has nice scrolling and move to new window. This makes me so mad but mostly sad.
Any news how Microsoft handle API v3?- not that I know of. I guess they won't bother maintaining v2 apis
