Google is phasing out Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome, starting in early June 2024, but not as fast as we thought. This change renders your ad blockers useless, and that is the intention despite their claims that Manifest V3 is designed to enhance the security, privacy, performance, and overall trustworthiness of Google Chrome extensions.
From June 3, 2024, with Chrome version 127, users with active Manifest V2 extensions will see warnings in the Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary channels. Extensions using Manifest V2 will also lose their "Featured" badge. Currently, my own system is at version 125, so the roll-out will take a little bit more time.
The stable version of Chrome will gradually disable V2 extensions and suggest V3 alternatives, but users can temporarily re-enable their V2 extensions, but this option will eventually be removed.
Google says that about 85% of Chrome extensions, including popular ad-blockers like AdBlock, Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin, and AdGuard, have migrated or released versions that support Manifest V3.
So if you thought like many that June 3rd was going to be Doomsday for your web browsing it’s not. The full rollout should occur with Chrome version 127, and our extensions with have new Manifest V3 versions available. Not sure yet if the popular extensions we all use with automatically update to Manifest V3 or if we’ll have to add new ones from Playstore.
I for one do not believe that Google or YouTube or any of its software products has a right to know what software you have on your system. I feel that it’s an invasion of privacy and an overreach by a greedy corporation whose motto was once “Don’t be evil”.
It seems like all their efforts to get you to disable or not use ad-blockers is really turning into a game of whack-a-mole, and I don’t see any end in sight.
*For users of the ad-blocking extension Ublock there’s already a MV3 alternative uBO Lite (uBOL). You can find more information at the following link. You may need to customize it, and this link gives you the information needed to do that uBol Lite or uBol.
Others are using different web browsers and enjoying all that YouTube has to offer without invasive annoying ads. You might consider Brave, Firefox, Opera, and or even DuckDuckGo. You can add ad-blockers to these as well and completely eliminate ads.
I suppose there’ll always be workarounds to avoid annoying ads until ads become part of the actual content.
*Google's claims that MV3 will help improve overall security is a blatant lie. Read more here at https://bit.ly/4e5iSrG.
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