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   also reflected in all Chromium forks, like Epic.  For example, Google   
   mandated deprecation and eventual removal of support for Manifest v2 by   
   supplanting it with Manifest v3.  MV3 cripples all ad/content blockers.   
   uBO came out with a Lite version for use with Chromium web browsers   
   (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddk   
   iahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh).   
   LOTS of features in regular uBO disappeared in uBlock Lite, because of   
   Google foisting MV3 using unfounded and disproven claims.  Blocklists   
   had to be severely truncated due to MV3's much smaller table size, so   
   there is less filtering available with MV3 of unwanted/untoward web   
   content.  While Firefox claims they will support both MV2 and MV3   
   extensions, so uBO still works in Firefox, I suspect eventually Mozilla   
   will drop MV2 support to go the way of Google.  All Chromium variants   
   already have, including Epic.   
      
   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/chromes-manifest-v3-and-   
   ts-changes-for-ad-blocking-are-coming-real-soon/   
      
   One of the effects of MV3 is Google, even in its variants, can override   
   any ad/content blocking by extensions.  That includes overrides on block   
   Google sites, like their analytics service that web sites use to gain   
   telemetry and logistics on how their web sites are used by visitors, or   
   Google's tag services to assist with web site management, both of which   
   are used to track their visitors.  And there is the Google Ads service.   
   With MV3, extensions can be overriden: their blocks can be unblocked.   
      
   Does Epic let you pick search engines other than Yahoo and their own?   
   Epic says:   
      
     As we've said many times it is impossible for us legally or ethically   
     to work with a company that makes privacy claims which are dubious   
     which it refuses to explain -- so we can't work with duckduckgo.  Both   
     Yahoo and DuckDuckGo are powered by Bing results so they have the   
     exact same search results.  We hope to migrate to Yahoo's transparent   
     private search engine soon which is actually is trustworthy.   
     (https://forum.epicbrowser.com/viewtopic.php?id=58957)   
      
   However, the thread notes a trick to add URLs to other search engines.   
   You'll have to test to see if it works.  I don't use Epic.   
      
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