Switching to Firefox is really not needed at all to evade this one. Just switch to a different Chromium browser than Chrome itself, then use your browser’s own extension store.
I use Edge, my adblocker is in Edge’s extension store. If Google is throttling updates to my adblocker to help in their fight on adblockers, I can just install the one from the Edge Addons store and that problem is solved. I’m sure other Chromium browsers have their own extension store too.
Why do you expect that Edge wouldn’t adopt Google-like MV3 along with Chrome?
Microsoft adopted Chromium in order to minimise development costs in a product it doesn’t see as core, something which would be incurred if it had to maintain its own fork of mv3, and is incentivized through Bing to pursue a similar approach.
I’m talking about what’s in the title only, Google slowing down extension updates.
There’s no problem with MV3. My adblocker already claims the user experience won’t be impacted.
The main issue is that block list updates will have to be delivered via extension updates, which means the extension store provider is in control of how fast the block lists can be updated. So adblockers trying to keep up with Youtube might get slowed down by Google.
My point is that can easily be solved by just not using Google’s extension store. Microsoft has no reason to slow down Youtube adblocking updates for example.
Of course, Microsoft still discontinues MV3 too. But that’s not my problem at all, and also not the one in the title here.
Switching to Firefox is really not needed at all to evade this one. Just switch to a different Chromium browser than Chrome itself, then use your browser’s own extension store.
I use Edge, my adblocker is in Edge’s extension store. If Google is throttling updates to my adblocker to help in their fight on adblockers, I can just install the one from the Edge Addons store and that problem is solved. I’m sure other Chromium browsers have their own extension store too.
Why do you expect that Edge wouldn’t adopt Google-like MV3 along with Chrome?
Microsoft adopted Chromium in order to minimise development costs in a product it doesn’t see as core, something which would be incurred if it had to maintain its own fork of mv3, and is incentivized through Bing to pursue a similar approach.
I’m talking about what’s in the title only, Google slowing down extension updates.
There’s no problem with MV3. My adblocker already claims the user experience won’t be impacted.
The main issue is that block list updates will have to be delivered via extension updates, which means the extension store provider is in control of how fast the block lists can be updated. So adblockers trying to keep up with Youtube might get slowed down by Google.
My point is that can easily be solved by just not using Google’s extension store. Microsoft has no reason to slow down Youtube adblocking updates for example.
Of course, Microsoft still discontinues MV3 too. But that’s not my problem at all, and also not the one in the title here.