Comment by sheept

16 days ago

As you alluded to, many Chromium forks (notable exception is Ungoogled) are backed by tech companies. There's already plenty of intentional changes they maintain in their forks, like Privacy Sandbox,[0] so I don't think preserving support for v2 is a large hurdle for them.

[0]: https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/10742158329613-W...

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jrm4  16 days ago

"Backed by tech companies"

Yup, huge red flag. Non-profit is the long-term way to go.

  • ranger_danger  16 days ago

    The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, but people still find creative ways to crap all over them for some reason.

    Someone else in this thread said they were "supporting the closed internet" by sending search queries to Google.

    • jrm4  15 days ago

      Yup, this kind of criticism happens all the time. It's good to point out -- but a lot of people treat it like a deal-killer, which is the height of naivete.

markstos  16 days ago

Google described Manifest V2 as significant tech debt with new bugs still found there. Either they are lying or it's a non-trivial feature set to continue to support.

So will be interesting to see how many other browsers actually do keep this support alive.