Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge,...
Not the end of the world but not great. Realistically UB0’s functionality should be part of the browser instead of an extra add on, Google is right to kill ManifestV2 for security and UB0 is the only MV2 extension anyone should actually be using.
Helium is a chromium browser, so unless they plan a hard fork, will be in the same boat as the rest when this is implemented.
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Not the end of the world but not great. Realistically UB0’s functionality should be part of the browser instead of an extra add on, Google is right to kill ManifestV2 for security and UB0 is the only MV2 extension anyone should actually be using.