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Firefox 109 Released with Manifest V3 Extensions Support

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  >The breakaway feature of this release is Firefox now officially supports Manifest V3 extensions ... Manifest V3 protocol is a brainchild of Google to restrict the ad-blocking and privacy-preserving extensions functionalities to gain more control over Ads. If implemented, the ad-blocking extensions may not work correctly, as many other privacy-related add-ons...

Nice one, Mozilla. Out-Googling Google.

I miss the details if Firefox now also does evil as Google intends and prevents ads/spying blocking or if they still let those extensions (and Firefox itself) do their job. Those corporation-originating managers of Mozilla are really doing a great harm to Firefox :( Looks like to be safe We will need to switch to browsers that do more to protect users from bad corporate stuff, e.g. LibreWolf.

Not only are Firefox doing 'evil as Google intends', they're embracing this Google-inspired crap before Google has even implemented it themselves:

  >Announced in 2018, Manifest V3 was supposed to launch on January 2023, but Google delayed it again without any planned rollout date ... However, Mozilla officially started supporting this from this version, i.e. Firefox 109 onwards

Never mind eating your own dogfood. Firefox are eating Google's for them.

Firefox will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...

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