On Monday, some people using Beta, Dev and Canary versions of Google Chrome will receive a warning when they access the browser's extension management page – located at chrome://extensions.
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The banner will say that older Manifest V2 browser extensions will stop working soon.
These extensions include ad blockers and other content filters that rely on the Manifest V2 API. And while leading ad-blocking plugins more or less support Manifest V2's successor, conveniently called Manifest V3, there's still some argument that these filters will be disadvantaged under version 3 when they're no longer allowed to use version 2.
In any case, users will be warned that V2 is on its way out.
