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Chrome's Manifest V3 Browser Extension Update

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Chrome Chrome users are seeing warnings pop up that extensions may soon no longer be supported.

Google Chrome is moving toward a new extension platform called Manifest V3 .

The new platform allows for greater number of content-blocking rules in extensions, specifically ad blockers.

Google has said it "isn't killing ad blockers" but "making them safer," in an explanation.

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https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/wiki/About-Google-Chrome's-%22This-extension-may-soon-no-longer-be-supported%22 https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh https://security.googleblog.com/2019/06/improving-security-and-privacy-for.html#:~:text=To%20help%20with,over%20Web%20Request.https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/googles-plans-chrome-extensions-wont-really-help-security https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-filtering-in-manifest-v3/https://blog.chromium.org/2018/10/trustworthy-chrome-extensions-by-default.html

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github.com blog.mozilla.org chromewebstore.google.com security.googleblog.com developer.chrome.com www.bleepingcomputer.com www.eff.org blog.chromium.org

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