Comment by michaelt
5 hours ago
> What exactly is your gripe with MV3?
Running an adblocker is the defining feature of the extensions API. ublock origin has 5x as many users as the second-most-popular extension [1]
Supporting ublock isn't just a nice-to-have add-on feature for an extension API, it's literally the only thing most users care about.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?promoted=re...
Firefox's MV3 implementation doesn't remove the original netRequest API though IIRC.
But MV3 supports uBlock Origin Lite.
Which, in my experience, blocks ads just as well, but also lets pages load significantly faster.
MV3 supports uBlock.
Just as one example: Chrome + uBoL on Reddit will show you plenty of "Sponsored" stuff. You can use Inspector to find the offending CSS classes and then use `display: none` on them with something like Stylus[0], but not everybody wants to play that whack-a-mole game on the many sites that push uBoL past its blocking capabilities.
[0]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus
It supports limited ublock functionality, not all of it, which will gradually be exploited by ad corps like google unless you think those are saints
Most definitely not as well.
Reading comprehension is the defining feature of a good commenter.