The whole manifest v3 announcement happened years ago and it's been at least a year since the timeline for the deprecation of manifest v2 got announced so it seems like as good a time as any to remind...
The whole manifest v3 announcement happened years ago and it’s been at least a year since the whole timeline…
Vivaldi’s intention seems to be to roll UBO’s capabilities into their built-in ad blocker, which isn’t subject to MV3’s restrictions. This way they get the security benefits without losing the one thing that really needed those capabilities. Maybe there are other extensions that need the MV2 capabilities, but I don’t know what they are, because thus far everyone’s only talked about adblock.
Vivaldi’s intention seems to be to roll UBO’s capabilities into their built-in ad blocker, which isn’t subject to MV3’s restrictions. This way they get the security benefits without losing the one thing that really needed those capabilities. Maybe there are other extensions that need the MV2 capabilities, but I don’t know what they are, because thus far everyone’s only talked about adblock.