Google has announced that Manifest V3 will roll out on Chrome in non-stable branches as early as June 2024. This will deprecate Manifest V2, which many ad-blockers like uBlock Origin use for their ...

It's Time to Leave Google Chrome Behind . The Manifest V3 update has been on the cards since early 2024, with Google first announcing it on its Chromium Blog.Many folks have already jumped ship to ...

After Google set off a wave of protests when its Manifest V3 system broke some ad-blockers in Chrome, Mozilla has implemented the system, but promises that it’ll still work with popular software ...

Google says it will continue the transition to its Manifest V3 extension standard in Chrome, which faced criticism for the restrictions it put on ad blockers. Google wants publishers to migrate to ...

As noted by uBlock Origin’s Raymond Hill on X (formerly Twitter), Google Chrome has begun disabling and suggesting the removal of extensions that are not updated for Manifest V3, as of Oct. 14.

As part of the Manifest V3 rollout, Google's official story is that it wanted to cut down on "overly-broad access" given to extensions and that a more limited extension platform would "enable more ...

Manifest V3 is Google's biggest revamp to the extensions platform, which is notable from the fact that Manifest V2 was launched back in 2012. With the rollout of V3 now on the horizon, ...

As uBlock Origin still uses this older Manifest version, that's bad news for the ad blocker's existing 40 million users on Chrome. uBlock Origin Lite is a Manifest V3 compliant alternative, though ...

Google has officially implemented a new platform for Chrome extensions, and it brings both good and bad news. On the positive side, Manifest V3 promises greater safety and security within Chrome ...

The transition to Manifest V3 has already begun, which means you might have been seeing warnings appearing on your Chrome extensions page. From a browser tab, click the three dots (top right ...

What is Manifest V3 and why Google is introducing it As I’ve mentioned above, Manifest V3 is the new Chrome specification for extensions. As such, it defines what extensions can and cannot do in ...

Manifest V3 has other restrictions that make ad blocking harder, including limits for static and dynamic rules. The immediate effect users will see is that updates to ad-blocking lists will come ...