Google’s Chrome extension cull hits more uBlock Origin users - USE FUCKING BRAVE

Google is disabling the original uBlock Origin ad blocker for more Chrome browser users, alongside other extensions that are no longer supported as the browser migrates to its new extension specification, Manifest V3. According to Google, the new standard aims to improve privacy and security, but also removes a feature that some ad blocking extensions relied on to work — a compromise that Mozilla is unwilling to make for its own Firefox browser.

Users online are reporting on Reddit and X that Chrome is removing outdated extensions. In Chrome, a notification window will appear underneath the extensions tab on the browser taskbar with a message encouraging users to remove the impacted add-on, saying it has been turned off and is “no longer supported.” Two buttons are available that allow users to either quickly delete or manage their extensions.

Google’s uBlock Origin phaseout on Chromium-based browsers began in October, but started to have a wider impact in recent weeks. Bleeping Computer has also reported that extensions on staffers devices are being turned off, and Verge staffers have seen similar updates on our own machines.

These changes come as Google migrates Chrome away from the now defunct Manifest V2 specification. Support is being killed not just for uBlock Origin, but for any extension that hasn’t (or is unable to) update to Manifest V3. uBlock Origin users can switch to uBlock Origin Lite, which has more limited filtering capabilities than its predecessor due to Manifest V3’s ad blocking restrictions.

Chrome won’t be the only service affected by the Manifest V3 rollout — other Chromium-based web browsers like Microsoft Edge are also losing V2 support and Brave says it can only offer “limited” support once all Manifest V2 items are removed from the Chrome Web Store. Mozilla says that Firefox will continue offering both extension specifications, however, potentially giving uBlock Origin users a new browser to relocate to.

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[ZipDisk]

if I am ever forced to start using metered data I am going to lose my fucking mind.

You probably already were without knowing it. ISP's know metered data is not popular with users so they hide the data limits in their AUP documentation.
My old ISP sucked, the cap was 250gb a month. My current ISP limit is 2 TB a month.

Verizon had a meter app for your phone but it didn't work, so you'd go over and have to pay more, but I haven't seen that app since I switched to samsung phones.

 

[RacistComputer79]

Ads are an outdated business model. The future is to pay youtubers and people on the internet to lie about your product. Tell them to speak naturally about your product to get the sponsorship. So you cut production costs for making the ads and now you have a guy who fakes human connection and has a parasocial relationship with their audience. People will be more inclined to believe him, than a fake corpo manifactured ad.

 

[Dean Pentel]

Ads are an outdated business model. The future is to pay youtubers and people on the internet to lie about your product. Tell them to speak naturally about your product to get the sponsorship. So you cut production costs for making the ads and now you have a guy who fakes human connection and has a parasocial relationship with their audience. People will be more inclined to believe him, than a fake corpo manifactured ad.

And inevitably those content creators are human scum/furries/trannies/faggots/pedophiles/all of these at once so your company ticks all those diversity boxes Google insists on.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

Correction: Jews. It's also the sign that a company is infested by jews, which google is

I dont think so. Jews like to skim off the top, but they tend to keep it smaller and more controlled, as they know they cannot bleed the host too much or else it would just die.

This is something else. I will give you a clue. They stink of shit, OAPs fear them, their economy is based around google gift cards and they are one of the most rapey nations on Earth.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Speaking of internet ads, I saw someone using this one time or clock site on a work computer. There was a number of ads around the time, and at least one video ad playing...

The internet "normies" use is almost like an entirely different internet.

Corporations are retarded when they constantly test you by spamming your email with spam that you are supposed to report while at the same time refusing to let you download Adblocker on your work PC / Laptop.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

Stopped using Chrome a long time ago. It would always use up too many resources when active.

 

[The_Gam3]

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[SchizoSpartan76]

A small minority of global Internet users even use adblockers at all, and Google loses only marginal amounts of money from adblock users.
This sort of penny pinching is the death rattle of a dying company.

Best part Google as a search engine is losing power to AI slop like GROK and ChatGPT they are more or less glorified search engines

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Honestly I really wonder who modern ads are for, 'normie' (non-tech savvy) people who have disposable income pay for YouTube premium or for premium streaming or whatever it is; the main people who will see ads nowadays don't have money to spend on advertised products, I assume. I can't imagine these companies see as much returns on those types of ads, but they keep paying for them anyway, even though typical consumers increasingly see them as punishment for not dishing out for premium streaming. I wonder if it's simply just tied to the whole 'many modern white collar jobs are fake jobs where people just go through the motions and lie their asses off to justify their employment' phenomenon that we've all been dealing with

Like so much else shit that used to have questionable utility but now has none, ads have become a humilitation ritual that boils the blood. The only people who you can bet are fully exposed to internet ads are boomers (and they fully deserve it).

 

[elastic eye]

The feature I like about Brave mobile is that when you play an ambient 8hr rain video or train noises or whatever you'd like to sleep to, once it's playing(with no ads) you can turn the screen off and it continues to play, and doesn't ask you in an hour if you're still watching and would like to shut off the stream to sleep. This is a pay-feature on the YouTube app.

It would be neat if Brave mobile had stats on how many hours I've spent sleeping listening to rainymood in the background. Been doing this for years at this point.


For me - Brave & LibreWolf w/ uBO along side DoH DNS & DNS blocking via AdGuard Home have been absolute bliss for so long now that it blows my mind seeing a browser without any type of ad blocking on someone else's device/PC that it's absolutely horrifying.

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

I switched from firefox because several websites I use don't work on it. More and more site designers are only designing for Chromium. it is disgusting.

I've slowly been cutting more and more of the internet from my life because its pretty obvious whats coming and I shall not be playing ball.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

I use 3 different browsers on my PC to segregate use-cases, so Brave doesn't get as much action as Firefox and the other one does, but I still use it from time to time.

 

[Mandals]

Do y'all ever go outside?

 

[Fats McGee]

In many cases it wasn't even a conscious decision or protest, the sites and services just got so gayed up and pozzed that they weren't worth the hassle/time anymore. If youtube gets fagged up, I'll just listen to more audiobooks.

Based audiobook chad, I'm right there with you. But yeah, the thing that got me away from pretty much all social media is the algorithms. It used to be that you were in control of what you saw on the internet. You searched for specific things and you consumed them. Now, everything feeds you content based on an "algorithm" which they CLAIM to be based on your browsing habits and history, but that's a load of shit. The algorithm shows you what they want you to see 90% of the time, and what you want to see 10% of the time. And that 10 percent is just so that you don't up and leave. This extends to search engines now, too. You can search "Animal Crossing Cheat Codes" and you'll get 10 irrelevant "promoted" links, and maybe one youtube video about the "Existential HORROR of Animal Crossing!"

Sorry, internet. If I can't control what I'm seeing and you're determined to try and manipulate me, then I'm just taking the ball and going home. Audiobooks, stardew valley, and the farms are all I need for my downtime.

 

[innocent jogger]

The feature I like about Brave mobile is that when you play an ambient 8hr rain video or train noises or whatever you'd like to sleep to, once it's playing(with no ads) you can turn the screen off and it continues to play, and doesn't ask you in an hour if you're still watching and would like to shut off the stream to sleep. This is a pay-feature on the YouTube app.

Just grab said video with wget or yt-dlp, copy to your phone and don't waste bandwidth or CPU on that streaming shit. (I like the heavy thunderstorm and crackling campfire ones myself. Fucking zzzzz)

 

[Blackhole]

hehe funny hitler number

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Where is the new information showing that Chrome is actually doing this at this moment? As far as I know nothing is going to happen until August 5th, 2025 when they release v139. For now everything should be working fine, unless you are in the Beta channel where they are already testing 139. However, since most people don't use Beta browsers, this isn't a concern to the average web user yet.

Until someone can give me a stable version number where this is actually happening, no one needs to worry until August 5th, 2025.

It's coming soon, fellas.

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[Gandhi's Left Hook]

Use Brave, you faggots.

Unless things have changed, Brave is just a less compatible version of chrome.

 

[Look At You]

Elon Musk, build an ion cannon and target the epicenter of where they send ads from. Advertisers deserve to be nothing more than radioactive craters whose families can't even bury.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

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Do y'all ever go outside?

I've heard of it.