Google will deprecate Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome by June 2024

npro

@ybjrepnfr said in Google will deprecate Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome by June 2024:

did you do it their recommended way via editing your hosts file?

ofc

i feel very loath to do that, coz imo it gives me a loss of easy on-the-fly reactive control, on some sites. eg, now, commonly, to get some sites working, i have to fiddle a lot with uBO filters & rules, & in some streaming cases, to my immense annoyance, i need to disable uBO entirely. i fear, greatly, that "baking" such a huge list into my hosts file might break many sites in ways entirely non-transparent to me, & make troubleshooting immensely harder than now. tldr; atm i am not inclined to use this.

understandable, but that's part of the price to pay these days where "we can't just have nice things".

solution: get more acquainted with 2 commands: grep and sed

Catweazle

@npro, it is somewhat complicated to find a balance, between finding the right filters to block ads and trackers on all sites and too many and breaking many pages. Although I have a 100% result in the adblocker test with the Vivaldi blocker, I start to see ads on YT without the iFrame script. However, if I also activate the Quantum filters, YT search stops working and other pages no render well. That is, it is advisable to continue using the previous configuration and the iFrame script, which is the best combination, at least for the moment.

Current Filters which give 100% in the test

Easy list (the default in Vivaldi)
https://github.com/StUser4pda/filtrite/releases/latest/download/bromite-4pda.txt
apart
iFrame script

against Cookie advice pop-ups

npro

@Catweazle I don't have any issues with youtube search and other pages at all, but I use the updated list in the recommended way (in hosts). Try that I'd say, as those lists you've used look unmaintained to me (2 years). Now how you will put ~121 MiB of text lines into your Microsoft Windows' hosts file is your task/problem

These are more than 4 million lines

Catweazle

@npro, anyway, at the moment I go fine with the mencioned filters and iFrame script, more using mainly front-ends for YT.
Apart Canvas Blocker, SiteBleacher, Link Unshortener, URLTracking Stripper, Nitter redirect, as secondary protection (desirable that in the future are also some there as Vivaldi own functions). Quite sad that nowadays so many extensions are necessary to avoid these surveillance data hogs

npro

@Catweazle said in Google will deprecate Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome by June 2024:

Nitter redirect

I use this https://libredirect.github.io/ in Floorp

Catweazle

@npro, yes, i use it before, but often problems with instances, apart there are no good front-ends for the worst Zuckerbot sites. Anyway with SiteBleacher "I've never visited the other pages", it's somewhat outdated, but make its job very well, maintan HD and browser clean of any unwanted crap.

npro

Hi @TheQuantumAlpha ,

said in Google will deprecate Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome by June 2024:

@npro I can't really update it..

Gitlab put a cap on blob size upload and transfer, which the list exceeds...

I'm not paying for gitlab either, the entire server system already costs over 10s of thousands of my pocket..

totally understandable

I might transfer to GitHub or an alternative, or will force it through piping.

Meanwhile, if you want an update, I can WeTransfer it lol

Don't worry it's working fine as it is already together with uBlock, I'm fine with whatever you decide, take as much time you need for figuring out the best solution

malikzeeb

@Greenphlem Manifest 3 is built into Chromium. It mainly impact extensions. Vivaldi has to use manifest 3 eventually because it based on Chromium.