Google Just Delayed Its Controversial Chrome Changes

From Forbes: Google has delayed the controversial Chrome changes dubbed Manifest V3 that could cause some ad blockers to break. The Manifest V3 changes were originally earmarked to start in January 2023 in Chrome 112.

In a timeline published back in October, Google described how Chrome was considering running experiments to turn off support for Manifest V3’s predecessor Manifest V2 extensions in Canary, Dev, and Beta channel. By January 2024, Google was planning to remove all remaining Manifest V2 items from the Chrome Web Store, with enterprise V2 support ending at the same time.

However, that timeline has been postponed, according to 9to5Google, which first reported the delay.

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