Hopefully Firefox won't follow.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
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Firefox currently has no plans to drop support for manifest V2. It also supports the WebRequest API in V3, so ad blocking would continue to work if they do discontinue V2.
Awesome!
The only silver lining was they were also going to disable third party cookies, but they nixed that idea and kept this one. I’m done rooting for chrome.
They were gonna axe the cookies in return for a generalized profile in your browser or something.
This can be problem for Firefox and Chromium based Browsers, too. If the Website decides that Manifest v3 is mandatory to visit their site, they can block any access from Browsers with v2 running in the background easier than before.
Websites don't get to see what addons are you running
Luckily the first link is for a deprecated property that returns a hard coded list for compatability reasons, and the other two are extension apis that random websites can't access.
Besides, with uBO (or a custom addon or userscript) you can replace the value of that list, for all sites or selectively