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[โ€“] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've been using various Firefox forks occasionally since before it was cool and that's still a respectable choice in my opinion. I still cling to the faint hope that maybe Google will not be in exclusive control of web standards but it might be pointless if everyone is ready to hop on the hip chromium skin of the month every time Mozilla corp does something stupid and out of touch. Manifest v3 should have been a much bigger wake-up call for the privacy minded chromium user, but I guess people are satisfied as long as Google lets them block most ads if they feel like allowing it.

[โ€“] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 minutes ago

As I understand it, there were genuine security reasons for Manifest v3. Browser extensions are a great vector for malware and under manifest v2 it was very easy to sneakily distribute that malware ... or something.

Honestly I didn't look into it that much because I'd use Firefox either way.