Add Chrome manifest v2 extensions

[safinaskar]

What's the Product's Name? Google Chrome's manifest v2 extensions

Describe the product in a single sentence. Old flavor of Chrome's extensions

When was the product launched? Provide a specific date, if possible. Don't know

When was the product discontinued? Provide a specific date, if possible. Starting June 2024, v2 manifest extensions will be gradually disabled

https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3

What type of product was it? App, Service, or Hardware? Service (Chrome Apps are listed as service, so let's list v2 extensions as service, too)

Killing of v2 extensions created a big controvercy. v2 extensions had features useful for adblockers. New manifest version (v3) is less capable in this field. Author of uBlock Origin wrote a big critique of v3 manifest: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40598795#comment24 . Other critique:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/ad_blockers_chrome_manifest_v3/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

Many products at "Killed by Google" are products killed because they are not really useful. Manifest v2 extensions seem to be opposite: it seems they are being killed exactly because they are useful! Manifest v2 extensions allow very advanced ad blocking, and Google doesn't like this!

[driedpampas]

related to #1292

[safinaskar]

https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/issues/1292 was closed by Github stale bot. This is absurd. See "GitHub stale bot considered harmful" ( https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html )

[github-actions[bot]]

This issue is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity.

[safinaskar]

GitHub stale bot considered harmful