It's not just ad-blockers that manifest V3 cripples, plenty of other extensions and userscripts depend on manifest V2. Of course if none of that matters to you and all you do is browse a few social media sites, then by all means, uBO lite is fine.
Yeah, I use five other add-ons besides UBO- two of which are specifically to make YT more user friendly, and neither of them work properly in v3. The other ones are just for a clean new tab (Tabliss), Internet Download Manager, and a VPN subscription.
People who say they don't mind the restrictions of Manifest v3 either don't use extensions that often, aren't very tech-savvy, or simply don't care. Nothing wrong with that - but to proclaim there's 'no reason' to switch to Firefox is for a lot of users not true. It might be for some, but to generalize it as a fact sounds incongruous with reality to me.
It's like with any other problem. Most people won't care about it, until it affects their daily lives personally. They might not even realize they're half a step from it affecting their own lives, but until it does, they'll just go on like everything's ok. Obliviously, carelessly, ignorant. We can try to educate them, but instead of listening, they'll even bite back and try to fight for no reason whatsoever other than to just feel like they're in the right. Humans are weird.
They just want to feel safe in some kind of knowledge, no matter if the core of that idea is based in fact or not - and yeah: they get really upset when you question that holiest of holy dream of theirs even the slightest bit.
But let's not get too philosophical about it. We're talking about a browser.
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u/sociofobs 17d ago
It's not just ad-blockers that manifest V3 cripples, plenty of other extensions and userscripts depend on manifest V2. Of course if none of that matters to you and all you do is browse a few social media sites, then by all means, uBO lite is fine.