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[Watch/Future] keep Manifest v2

Open tomByrer opened this issue 3 years ago • 8 comments

Google's in development Manifest v3 will remove the ability to redirect/block URLs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWCLhHrblE&list=PLakykuPxo3chMNq-SOFIkkh3QgwSqXV0n&index=1&t=331s

tomByrer avatar Sep 20 '22 12:09 tomByrer

@tomByrer Yeah I know. Im a user of ublock origin. Theres alot of other extensions I also use that probably wont get updated. Its a shitty move by google. I will be adding the enterprise policy patch to keep MV2 for as long as possible, but unless another chromium fork comes up with a patch, I dont think I would be able to create one myself. In that case, I might just use the last version of thorium that supports it for myself, and suggest other users do so if they really need a mv2 extension. Otherwise I dont really know what to say.

Alex313031 avatar Sep 20 '22 23:09 Alex313031

You could add an ad blocker built into the browser (kinda like brave), then just add an option to turn it on on first setup. That will at least help with the ad block issue.

mixtapejaxson avatar Oct 24 '22 02:10 mixtapejaxson

So Chromium 112 based builds is when this will become an issue, right?

brucethemoose avatar Dec 23 '22 21:12 brucethemoose

@brucethemoose Well that is when it will have it turned off by default, but there will still be enterprise policy for another year to allow manifest v2 extensions. When that comes around I will be forcing the code that checks for that policy to be set to true always, that way manifest v2 will work in thorium all the way until they completely remove the code that actually loads/runs manifest v2 extensions and chrome apps.

Alex313031 avatar Jan 01 '23 16:01 Alex313031

@Alex313031 from what I understand Brave uses an integrated adblocker engine https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

Would you like to integrate it on Thorium?

svin24 avatar Oct 17 '23 16:10 svin24

@Alex313031 from what I understand Brave uses an integrated adblocker engine https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

Would you like to integrate it on Thorium?

I recommend using the same type of extension for ad filtering.

@SViN24

gz83 avatar Oct 18 '23 03:10 gz83