Google confirmed that Chrome extensions will need to use the Manifest V3 format by June 2024 as Chrome will be updated to drop support for Manifest V2. This is bad because Manifest V3 adds a "completely arbitrary limit on how many rules content filtering add-ons can include, which are needed to keep up with the nearly infinite ad-serving sites that are out there", effectively nuking ad blocking extensions - a situation I'm sure Google isn't losing any sleep over. Google has also been busted adding a "five-second delay when loading YouTube videos on Firefox, which disappeared when the user agent was switched to Chrome". Finally in Google related news, it came out in court that Google gave Spotify a secret sweetheart deal of only 4% on the Play Store when user paid for Spotify via Google and 0% when they used Spotify's own system.
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