Post #4039500

It’s ok #Google, I don’t care if you remove my two browser extensions (Platypush and RSS Viewer) from the Chrome Store. I still won’t migrate them to that technical horror named Manifest V3 that you wanted so badly. There are two reasons: Manifest V3 is your own creature. Web extensions were doing just fine with Manifest V2. You wanted Manifest V3 only because you hate ad-blockers. And you lied for a long time saying that it was, as usual, for “increased user security”. So I won’t give you a victory by migrating my extensions to Manifest V3, because I hate everything that Manifest V3 represents. The Platypush extension needs the ability to intercept and mangle HTTP requests through its custom JavaScript API. The RSS Viewer extension needs the ability to intercept HTTP responses to detect the countless ways that an RSS/Atom feed can be provided, and render it accordingly by swapping content-type and creating a new DOM on the fly. Both these abilities have been lost in Manifest V3 - and that’s just because you, Google, hated ad-blockers, and you didn’t care of destroying many legitimate use-cases from extensions that had been around for years. As of now, since apparently also Brave gave up on supporting Manifest V2, the only supported way to install and use the Platypush and RSS Viewer extensions is through Firefox or any of its forks. If there’s any Chromium-based browser out there that still supports Manifest V2 properly please let me know - but at the current state the extensions would still require a manual install because they have been removed from the Chrome Store.