The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    1 year ago

    Google’s sales pitch for Manifest V3 is that, by limiting extensions, the browser can be lighter on resources, and Google can protect your privacy from extension developers.

    Emphases mine. Funny, I use extensions to protect my privacy from Google.

    Chromium needs to be fully divested from Google. End of story. There’s too much conflict of interest in letting the world’s largest advertising company have this much control over one of the two major browsers. If you don’t see the problem with that, imagine if Taco Bell was also the world’s largest producer of anti-diarrhea medicine.

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        As a web developer, Safari needs to either die in a fire or be transferred to a company that actually cares. It’s more than half a decade behind everybody else.

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          Tell me about it. Every time I implement some new thing in my app:

          Firefox/Chrome: You cast HTML5 video. Critical hit!

          Safari: Your spell fizzles…

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            … Safari added support for HTML5 video in 2009. Chrome did not even exist yet in 2009.

            In fact, Safari was the first to support it. At the time you had to use Flash to deliver video in every other browser.

            Firefox added a half assed implementation of the video tag shortly after Safari but it wasn’t fully supported until 2013 according to caniuse.com. In fact FireFox was the last browser to fully support HTML5 video.