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"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

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552 points freedomben | 2 comments | 11 Oct 24 14:20 UTC | HN request time: 1.176s | source
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sho ◴[11 Oct 24 14:49 UTC] No.41809962[source]▶
Hopefully this is the inflection point for Chrome. Despite all their made-up "security" reasons, everyone knows this is solely about making adblock less effective. For many users, adblock is what makes chrome bearable - and if they make it unbearable, then those users will leave. Slowly but surely.

Google seems much too sure of itself making this change. I hope their arrogance pays off just the same as Microsoft's did with IE.

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1. DataDive ◴[11 Oct 24 15:29 UTC] No.41810359[source]▶
> Hopefully this is the inflection point for Chrome.

Here is one empirical data point.

I switched over to Firefox this morning and will advocate for it.

I've considered it for a while, but I never felt motivated to make the switch. It took me a good half hour to set it up the way I like it.

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2. heelix ◴[12 Oct 24 14:00 UTC] No.41819139[source]▶
This is sort of like planting trees. I cut bait on chrome when they first announced they were dropping/impacting adblockers. For the most part, things are good enough the only time I spin up chrome is confirming something renders as expected on a personal site. Firefox works well enough for streaming and surfing.