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As Firefox will introduce Manifest V3 which will make ad-blockers unusable, I hope they will not implement that as well ... But since this is so new, this will not have any add-ons at all for the foreseeable future
AFAIK FF is implementing Manifest V3 so that those add on developers who are migrating to it don't lose FF compatibility. As long as they don't deprecate Manifest V2 for those that need it, ad blockers will continue to be usable.
edit: although I'll add that there's a major problem here that Mozilla simply can't address. If ad block stops working on chromium browsers, and ad block users all migrate to Firefox, then that makes it a lot easier for Google or others to target users of those browsers and deny them access to their sites. Imagine if Google goes scorched earth on all browsers that support manifest v2.
Lets hope they stay true to their words and do not deprecate
Manifest V2later, since firefox is an open source project, theoretically anyone could fork it and build this on their own, but I heard compile-times for firefox is long. And as complexity of the web increases maintaining your own forked web browser will become harder and harder. That is why projects like Ladybird are important imo.As more and more webpages do not support firefox anymore (Notion did not work for me today) the web will become unusable in a dystopian Manifest-V3 only future.
that would just open them up to a massive anti trust lawsuit and they're already under pressure with that as it is
Stop spreading lies. Firefox will not deprecate the APIs that enable adblocking..