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PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium


How to keep using adblockers on chrome and chromium - manifest-v2-chrome.md

google's manifest v3 has no analouge to the webRequestBlocking API, which is neccesary for (good) adblockers to work starting in chrome version 127, the transition to mv3 will start cutting off the use of mv2 extensions alltogether this will inevitably piss of enterprises when their extensions don't work, so the ExtensionManifestV2Availability key was added and will presumably stay forever You can use this as a regular user, which will let you keep your mv2 extensions even after they're supposed to stop working Open regedit, and create Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ExtensionManifestV2Availability as a dword set to 0x00000002

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