Comment by charcircuit 4 hours ago
Participarion in web standards includes multiple different browsers even if they use the same browser engine. If we had only blink based browsers, it wouldn't be just Google at the table.
>phasing out support for Manifest V2. A widely unpopular, forcing change.
It was unpopular among a niche minority. Most of which didn't undersrand what actually changed with MV3, nor did most people understand the evolution of MV3 over time.
Android breaks app with every major update, but what happens is those app developers make changes to be compatible with the new version. It wouldn't have broken if uBO was updated to be MV3 like other web extentions were. Instead for a MV3 and brand new extention was made which means users can't be automatically updated with a MV3 connotation version.
Some additional information would be that MV3 allows the extention to update rules without a new extention update. This is one of the several misinformations of MV3 that have been spread.
There's the not-so-small problem that the replacement for UBO is noticeably worse in many ways, which is entirely the fault of MV3.
I don't know the details, but breaking uBO was the obvious negative impact for users.
Is there some additional information that you think would change the opinion of the users who want strong adblocking capabilities?