Google didn't implement their own straightjacket APIs correctly but sunset Manifest V2 out of pure greed so now authenticated proxies don''t work in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers.

You could have ditched chrome a long time ago and still can do that now

@iiii I have used firefox mainly for as long as I can remember, but YouTube works better on Chromium, as does Discord, Roll20, code-server, and a bunch of others. In this case I needed to proxy Discord because the company blocked it.

@lorentz AMEN! 😁 Don't forget the great PWA support! WhatsApp is an app now! And snek! Sneeeeek

@lorentz had literally no issues with youtube

@iiii every Firefox user I know did at some point within the last year. The best assessment I've ever heard is "it doesn't break too often" or "it's just a reload so it's fine".

@lorentz

"I needed to proxy Discord because the company blocked it."

That is kinda funny. My boss created discord server for communication internally. So when someone uses their home account we can see what games they play on their day off.

@Demolishun Right, well, transnationals aren't known for that.

@lorentz yeah, we are smol still.

@Demolishun do those people know that they can disable that feature?

@iiii yes, but they don't care.

edit: We live vicariously through them

@Demolishun eh? through?

@Demolishun real companies use snek.

Don't other chromium based browsers still support it?

@12bitfloat MV2 is not needed for this in theory because MV3 offers an authentication callback, that callback is just not called in Chromium for some fucking reason.

@lorentz "For some reason" ^^

I would be surprised if other browsers like brave actually ended support for whatever is required for uBlock though, whether MV2 or something else

@12bitfloat they do, but uBlock would never work with plain MV3 so "Chromium except for Chrome" is still a reasonable distribution target. Proxies don't want to keep supporting MV2 just because Chromium's implementation of MV3 is rushed and crap when all the functionality they need is part of the standard they develop against.

@lorentz actually there is uBlock lite which works on V3. It's not as versatile as the original but it works, afaik.