Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too.

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

  • skaffi@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Lynx? Hah, I must chortle in your general direction.

    Elinks is the powerful, featureful and versatile, yet light, CLI browser of today. If you haven’t tried it, or if it’s been years since you’ve tried it, then I can only recommend taking it for a spin.

    It even has a minimal, partial ECMAScript/JavaScipt implementation that’s optionally available, meaning that it can browse and navigate the modern web to a much greater degree than other CLI browsers, but of course with the trade-off that you’re now executing some amount of JavaScript code again, which is probably what you’re trying to escape in the first place when you’re firing up a CLI browser instead of a conventional browser.