Safari is by far the best browser on Mac IMO, I’m glad Edge is coming but it has its work cut out to beat Safari on performance, energy efficiency and integration.
Exactly. The whole point of this HN post is that people are annoyed and upset about Safari doing this. Ultimately this and Chrome's potential upcoming changes have driven me back to using Firefox almost exclusively.
Mozilla's statement regarding Manifest V3 hints that Mozilla is likely to follow the same path at a later date. They face the same security and privacy issues surrounding plugins that have driven Apple and Google to make the changes they have.
> We have no immediate plans to remove blocking webRequest and are working with add-on developers to gain a better understanding of how they use the APIs in question to help determine how to best support them.
I don't take from that they will apply it in the future, just they don't want to rule anything out.
Of course you’ll hear a lot more noise from the users of the browser with the larger share by a wide margin.