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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

As uBlock Origin lead developer and maintainer Raymond Hill explained on Friday, this is the result of Google deprecating support for the Manifest v2 (MV2) extensions platform in favor of Manifest v3 (MV3).

"uBO is a Manifest v2 extension, hence the warning in your Google Chrome browser. There is no Manifest v3 version of uBO, hence the browser will suggest alternative extensions as a replacement for uBO," Hill explained.

"uBO Lite (uBOL) is a pared-down version of uBO with a best effort at converting filter lists used by uBO into a Manifest v3-compliant approach, with a focus on reliability and efficiency as has been the case with uBO since first published in June 2014."

Google Chrome users are also warned to remove or replace the uBlock Origin ad blocker with similar extensions.

A "Find alternative" link also sends them to this Chrome Web Store page, which advises them to switch to uBO Lite, Adblock Plus, Stands AdBlocker, or Ghostery.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So then my use of crome will soon be stopped

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

The best time to stop using chrome was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

In-built adblockesr are the way. Google has no power there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Librewolf. Stop using chrome

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or Floorp (with Betterfox) if you find the ultraparanoia features and website breaking of Librewolf annoying. I think that'd be the option most people who use Chromium browsers are willing to transition to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’d like to degoogle. Hearing a year or so ago that they were going to dismantle ad blockers was a good motivator for me to at least switch to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wish degoogling were simple. I mean it's mostly fine on PC, pretty much impossible on flagship Samsung phones though and on Google phones you have some important missing features (like not being able to use the tap-to-pay with a custom OS).

Also for both PC and phones, the Google IME for Japanese is just far better than any other Japanese IME. The other ones are far more clunky. There are alternatives, namely Mozc on PC, but they're just not even close in quality. I don't know any good alternatives on Android – I hope florisboard will be able to reach that point some time after it gets a dictionary/suggestions feature in a month or two (which I'm excited to start contributing to) but we'll have to see.

I imagine it's a similar story for Chinese and Korean.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Librewolf not only allows uBlock Origin, but AdNauseam (which Firefox blocked). And AdNauseam has Ublock Origin built into it nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you confusing Firefox with Chrome? It's the Chrome web store that Adnauseum was removed from. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Firefox disabled it at one point, guess it came back into their good graces when my eye wasn't on the matter. But firefox is selling out it's users in other ways now