Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought 

If opera's managed to convince zoomers to install spyware just because it can play stupid meme sounds I wonder how well firefox would do if they spent more than a big mac on their marketing budget.

Don't you love it when the open source alternatives have a distinct feature rich feeling rather than the made up languages to keep things proprietary?

Adblockers should be mandatory for underage users.

Let's make Firefox better again

Imagine letting the biggest ad and search company also dictate how you view the internet. I'm not sure how it's even legal.

Shame that most of the modding community won't think to boycot chrome altogether so that users are drawn away from it to browsers that do support their favourite extentions, would teach google a very harsh lesson in respecting user choice

3:00 It is always about "security." this is how digital tyranny expands.

Using ad block on chrome is like using tor on windows. You decide to use a privacy tool in an unsafe environment. Use a better browser, like firefox for example, that everyone knows about.

Obey the Goolag manifesto. 💀

I really hope that one day electric companies will start turning off power to Google datacenters and will turn on back and only when needed (for 30 seconds, no more). This will greatly improve Internet security and "eco-friendliness"😁

You assume that "privacy" means "user controls their data". "Privacy" for google is "site controls the user data and not user". And it all start to make sense. I.e. DRM, privacy is when person cannot pirate stuff. The google politics is a bit twisted here. OH, it is also totally makes sense. Because for many users apple devices is a "pinnacle of the privacy". Even if they basically have 0 control.

love love lovveee the pride pin 💜

Im only worried about FF being funded by google (its a thing). But hey, forks of FF like Librewolf exists, so even if that fails, we good.

Watched this video purely for the algorithm. Never using Chrome again in my life, and have been encouraging others to do the same. Also, that permission system is just YET ANOTHER bunch of stupid buttons you'll have to click on a website just like bloody cookies which the EU tried to "fix" only to mess up years ago.

This is what Oligopolies do. Google needs to be broken up post haste.

This made me switch to Firefox. I wonder is it for Chromium really needed to switch to Maniifest V3? I mean it is open source, and they also dont provide Google Sync anymore. So why do they need to switch to V3?

So, simplified "google will kill chrome!" this won't just block adblockers, but any app that works with the wider internet - such as translation apps, news apps etc, with firefox-wayland we don't even need GTK while running firefox in KDE,

When are people going to realize that at first businesses, give you excellent products, in order to get all the customers to join in, once the majority of people join in, then they make it shit like always. Whether it’s software hardware product services commodities is always the same thing. Business is always do the same thing. History repeats itself.

I find it a bit sad that google chooses to abuse it's position to force their way of making money on us, instead of changing, while making security worse for us. I believe most people would be willing to pay an honest company for an honest and fair service. Anyway thanks for keeping us up to date on these matters, with your wonderful cute accent :).

i wish servo was good enough for a browser, we need more web engine competition.

I read somewhere that a bird born in a cage will never know freedom. This is the case with Windows and Google Chrome, as they are the cages, and new users are shoved into it. Inside it is a brave new world to them since it has everything to make them not step out and see that there is firefox, there is Linux, there is free software made to be free.

I really love this new style of video! Thanks for another great one Nicco!

Moneyfest version 3

I never touched Chrome based browsers and never will.

8:53 it is called "progress" in digital tyranny.

11:56 cerealize 🥣

This is a very good way for Google to kill Chrome. Many extensions developers will not be able to continue to support Chrome or it will be too much of a hassle. Gradually, Chrome will have less extensions and many, that remain may have impaired functionality. People will attribute this to Google and to Chrome, than to the extensions (and rightly so) and will ditch Chrome for a better browser. Which means in the long run Chrome will lose big on its market share. So, in this case the bad may be for the better.

GoGoGo Firefox!

Perhaps a fork of Chromium that keeps manifest v2 is in order?

Not chromium users(Firefox and other) 👇🏻 I liked my own comment

I love the news reporter style video.

I wish we could get enough knowledgeable volunteers to get Falkon up to speed.

I'm loving the pride pins, feeling the love 💖

Sounds like Plugins you install on the computer will be back.

really good and important topic but i think you should try to do something to this audio. it is very quiet compared to other videos. i can even boost the audio like 12db without any noticeable distortion. that shouldn't be possible on a video with correct audio settings.

You, as a KDE developer, could you make a video talking about how KDE and maybe other open-source projects get money? I always had this question.

firefox i'd been missing you so much

v3 sucks but I'm not switching to Firefox until we fully forced into using v3 only

Never touched a Chromium based browser, except for Brave, which is ok (and Edge to download Firefox) But Firefox has always been my one and only browser. Glad that most Linux distros ship it by default. The mobile version is excellent too.

do they still keep pushing pocket? the first thing I always do is to delete that crap from FF and it keeps coming back.

Hello firefox my old friend, I've come to talk with you again

Great way to end your reign as the browser king, Chrome😂

I would watch this video but youtube has detected I'm using an adblocker and won't play it on firefox.

Your audio is very quiet, you might want to target a higher content loudness.

Time for a 🍴. Internet Explorer beat Netscape. Firefox beat Internet Explorer. Chrome and Safari beat Firefox. Someone can do it again with another new browser.

Haha, knew this was coming that's why I'm still on FF even with all these sites trying to trick me into going chrome by breaking FF. I a site won't work with FF then its the sites fault and dont let them trick you into a browser that uses you.

To date, Chrome has 175 000 extensions i predict by year end it will be reduced to 25 000 usable extensions due to M3

Maybe the rejection of ad blockers will make more people move from Chrome

Does Firefox now allow you to create you own search string without an extension? 10 years ago it didn't have that and you were required to install an extension for a search engine in order to query it, and there was no way to modify it. Plus it was adding tracking into the url. Back then it was a deal breaker for me. Do they handle it differently now?

This is why i still use Firefox.

What will happen people will create wrappers for their ab block extensions.

If I can't run adblock (and tamper monkey, certain to be impacted by the same policies) on mainline chrome, it's dead to me.

Doesn’t really matter. Not using chrome anyway.

When you completely stop, pause, point out your mistake, then redo the line... cut that part out and go straight to the redone line.

If this isn't a signal that google is actively hostile to the user I don't know what is.

Believe me, i didnt understand a single thing you said. But i trust you, i Believe in you. thanks for the video.

Sounds like adblockers will be implemented ANYWAYS via browser proxy, LOL.

lol were you doing stuff with flatpak before you made the screenshot at 7:25 and accidentally middle clicked?

Finger scanner interface please! Nemo drag and drop also! Media codecs etc for preview icons! Widgets are removed on theme changes! Icons at log dont look right for some themes. Merci

Of course google wants user privacy protection from extensions, taking all of peoples data without a care is google's job after all.

Firefox FTW.. Only place I've ever used chrome is on a work PC where I was forced to.

Breaking google is killing chrome for nerds There naive thinking anyone with some technical skills will stay on chrome if adblocking gets prevented

I wonder how much time would take to make an alternative to Chrome that doesn't suck nor have manifest v3... lol

This is why other browsers are needed.

This was painful to listen to with all the stopping and joking and repeating mistakes and poking fun at your script writer every 30 seconds. If there's mistakes, edit them out.

Google eliminating its rival who also "collecting data for malicious purposes"

Nicco can you tell how can I report bugs, request feature and contribute in kde.

>< Trackers will bypass adblockers and script blockers by using ' off-screen ' transit.

I disabled updates for chrome. That really helps.

does this manifest change affect pwa-apps with serviceworkers?

Lol If this is the case then the title should read "Google kills Chrome." 😅Because people will just jump over to Firefox. And good riddance. I love how everybody hates Google's practices and all the spying and data collection but yet they use Google's browser. I never understood that.

Imagine still using Chrome in 2024.

This is the downfall of a dinosaur...

I don't use chrome never liked it. I always used firefox based browsers.

Watching this from RU-vid premium so you should still get a cut 😉

Unfortunately it will be too technical for eu politicians to go against this.

yeh i would just rather have the consistency in some of the changes they're implementing. this way, when the Dems claim it was "Russian Bots", the logs for some webapp requiring authentication will indicate whether the "bots" browsers used the attestation in Chrome.

Too many déjà vu's in this video. 😹

I don't understand all of the fuss. Run ad blocking on an external device--firewall or even a cheap Raspberry Pi. This can cover your entire network without needing to add it to each individual device or worrying whether a browser will support it or not.

Boost your voice over volume ! you're at - 18 db !

Am I the only one smelling a Chromium fork coming?

Adblock will have to be moved into the firewall and or vpn perhaps.

Love the pin 🤗

Ok, lets set the volume to 80% to even hear and watch this, then die of fright when I forget to lower it to the normal value of 10% when this video is done. Please check volume before posting new videos... 😕

Switched to Firefox.

I only watch videos I really want to, otherwise I get AI to summarise the transcript and give me the quickie. I want to reduce distractions and control my attention. If ads or google are not helping my brain, I am not interested. Find things that supplement, make easier, help people do what they are doing. I get really cringy being bombarded by billboards and assistants. I have become very aware of the leaches that can suck my brain. And I am very much not giving them or it my mind. I don't engage with video streaming platforms or tv services. I might watch Euronews, CNN, or local government news channel. I am looking to control who or what has my attention. I want to create my own local space and branch out where I will, in a healthy way. These platforms are restrictive and controlling and exploitive. I would like to be in control of what I create. I will like to be in control. Have property. I want an internet I own. Maybe people could have internet numbers, and distributors have to dial it up, and only what is chosen to be shared. A universal identity platform. Maybe.

I still use mainly Chrome for convenience, the moment adblock stops working i will switch without a second thought

Do you use Google Chrome?

Ill just keep using Vivaldi on manifest v2 until an alternative appears or the adblock stops working.

I have Add-blocker to the OS level on Android and Windows. No problem.

Yet another reason to never touch any Blink-based browser.

i love the suit with the bi pin. Really makes you look like the ambassador of the country of Bisexualia :D

Google needs to be broken up along with Meta.

will pihole work then?

long time later got your video

I Hope it will bring more people to firefox

I only use chrome for reading gmail 😂

31.38 you could ended it after subscribed.

Oops, the end of Chromium....

Well, for me, to get returned to firefox, first thei need to fix gpu rendering. Actually, firefox is one of the wort browsers related to graphics performance.