On 14 October, #Microsoft will end support for #Win10.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

Yours may be one of them!

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Learn more: https://endof10.org/press

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  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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    I’m ootl on this and after a brief google search it seems like a big thing to be ootl on. What are some of the consequences of v2 ending?

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      Basically Google sits on so much browser market share that they decided to push a change through that’d benefit their business model which is ads and that means making adblocker extensions worse as @Kannushi_Link@lemmy.world points out. It’s going to affect many other extensions, I imagine userscripts and userstyles will also be affected - if you use a Chromium browser.

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      The consequences of v2 ending is that you should use a non-Chromium-based browser, like Firefox or one of it’s forks.

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        Oh well that’s good for me at least sounds like it will be business as usual? I’ve been using Firefox since I think 2008

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          Same.

          It’s also likely that Google will use/require manifest v3 to access some of their services (like YouTube) in order to more strictly apply DRM and prevent adblockers/third party players. That hasn’t happened yet, but it’s the kind of enshittification that these companies like to do.

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      You can NOT use effective adblocker extensions with manifest v3, as it removed functions that they need (and impose some other limits to make them unable to update fast)