I understand that, but my question is more for Raymond. Will he keep on developing a chromium version of uBlock Origin when the dominant browser (Google Chrome) doesn't support it anymore due to Extension Manifest V3 ?
The other chromium based browsers have no meaningful market share today.
He could just give up. He did that before and as a result we have an uBlock and an uBlock Origin.
I misunderstood your previous post. You raise a question I honestly hadn't thought of. We will see eventually as things develop. I ought to pay more attention to posts!
Here's another post:
Google: No, Of Course, We're Not Slowly Killing Ad Blockers
At least on the surface, this looks like a good thing. But there are a few niggling details that call that into question. Back in January, the Register
reported that Adblock Plus and similar plugins relying on basic filtering would still be able to function, while more sophisticated ones like uBlock Origin and uMatrix would be completely borked. The site also
noted that well, Google had conveniently paid Adblock Plus to let their own ads pass unblocked in the software. In a statement, Ghostery, another popular adblocker, pointed out the Declarative Net Request API was limited, and that it wouldn’t be possible to “modify or kill potentially dangerous or privacy-invading requests.” ...
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Still, developers aren’t buying it. In a
statement to Wired, Ghostery President Jeremy Tillman said, “I think they’ve been trying to give the impression that they’re working with the developer community, when in fact they’re pretty entrenched with what they want to do. The new API is not in itself a bad thing, but it becomes a bad thing when it’s the only option because it lacks the flexibility that the Web Requests API provides.”