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

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552 points freedomben | 1 comments | 11 Oct 24 14:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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. wooque ◴[11 Oct 24 15:50 UTC] No.41810553[source]▶
I'd argue it won't make a dent in Chrome market share.

People who really care about this (tech minded people) are not using Chrome anyway, others (regular people) will switch to less powerful Manifest V3 adblockers that would probably be good enough and won't switch from Chrome.