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Users online are reporting on Reddit and X that Chrome is removing outdated extensions.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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[Tago Mago]

I HATE ADS
I HATE TELEMETRY
I HATE POZZED CORPORATIONS

 

[Black Yoshi]

The next step is to make you bow

Or they could do what cable providers do on some On Demand streams, actually put in commercials that override the program's stream and preempt your show with a commercial without cutting the program's run time around the breaks. Thus causing you to miss part of the program in a way that rewinding can't fix.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

>Using Chrome
NGMI.

 

[moocow]

This is pretty great (and I am going to try and block these) but why are they hostnames and not IPs?

It's not a big list, so when routers use and update this blacklist they just query DNS (in plaintext, not DoH ) to build a list of IPs. In these examples the script just adds entries to the block list one at a time. It only takes a few seconds.

Shoveling a bunch of IP addresses into a blocklist isn't as resource-heavy as it sounds, either -- the Linux kernel (and I think the NT kernel as well) builds "IP sets" using hashes instead of just keeping a pile of IPs in memory, which keeps the structure very compact and faster to look up in the list than even just a four byte IP address. It's fuckin' black magic to me, but it certainly works (it even works for the traditional massive IP blocklists, 500k+ addresses, and it's still compact and fast).

ETA: Those big 500k+ blacklists include most (if not all) of the known "Smart TV" phone-home addresses too since that shit's almost never useful.

Or they could do what cable providers do on some On Demand streams, actually put in commercials that override the program's stream and preempt your show with a commercial without cutting the program's run time around the breaks. Thus causing you to miss part of the program in a way that rewinding can't fix.

Once again, piracy is less inconvenient and more enjoyable than trying to genuinely do it "the right way."

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I don't give a shit. Here I am using openly woke software to post on a website that has a kill count in the trillions. Online hate-terrorism proudly produced by LibreWolf. I siphon their bandwidth to update my browser and then I use it to say nigger.

No Josh, what you gotta be doing is going on to communist subreddits and pretending to be a Stalinist and saying that all anti semites should be put against the wall and shot. That is the proper use of the Internet.

 

[spyfromTF2]

Use Brave, you faggots.

brave is still chromium based, it exposes your whole device, the only thing good about it is the built in ad blocker, i would recommend tor (but make sure you check the privacy settings) atp no really other option, idk if other browsers are good for privacy really.

 

[Masturbator]

thats why ya compile iridium once and enjoy it for lifetime

 

[The Grimace]

What's the easiest way to migrate all my tabs and extensions and shit to Brave at this point?

 

[Jacknife]

The more ads become prevalent in the modern web, the more we will go from browsers to scrapers that just download the parts that you want to see and display them nicely on your phone.

Wanna see a youtube video?
That gets downloaded on your phone, with comments and description and without all the other bloat.

Wanna read an article?
Article gets downloaded and displayed in another custom selected app, if there is a paywall some archive gets selected.

Niggerfying the will backfire on sites and publishers that need ads to survive but probably not on Google yet

 

[Wrestlemania]

I don't get the hard-on for Brave. It's still Chromium, but with Crypto bollocks built in.
I personally use Waterfox (Firefox fork) and *shock*, Ublockorigin works completely fine without any of the fucking mess with Manifest.

 

[Francium]

I don't get the hard-on for Brave. It's still Chromium, but with Crypto bollocks built in.
I personally use Waterfox (Firefox fork) and *shock*, Ublockorigin works completely fine without any of the fucking mess with Manifest.

brave is such ass i don't understand why people can't just suck up the mild ui differences and use a firefox based alternate. librewolf has been pretty solid to me at least once you can get past that hideous logo, but even then resource hacker makes changing it easy enough

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

Billions must die
And you know, whom I mean

 

[HalHalliday]

Has anyone, out of morbid curiosity, tried installing Chrome?

The installer doesn't ask anything, it just adds itself to the desktop, start menu and pins itself to the taskbar.
Upon starting, it ask you to log in to Google, ask you to set it as the main browser, ask you to send information to Google, let you know it installed Adobe pdf extension and then:

"Allow personalized ads to protect your privacy."

Also, if you log in to Gmail, it automatically connects Chrome to your account and starts syncing things like passwords, bookmarks, history, etc.

Niggerlicious.

 

[whatever I feel like]

So did some material change happen to ressurect the thread?

So, the answer is no, right?

 

[Terrifik]

it auto turns off v2 apps
work around till next wave is.

Spoiler: nothing here

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/issues/2665

chrome://flags/#allow-legacy-mv2-extensions

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Does this mean Firefox wins?

 

[Pencil Pusher]

Incredible how Google continues to hire new oggles of devs to craft these new measures. Maybe this time it’ll stick? If history is history, there’s at least 100 front end guis that’ll crack it plus mine bitcoin for someone in Migingo.

 

[JakeMorgendorffer]

You run your own DNS server that is private. Something like dnscrypt-proxy. You can even do DoH using your own DNS server (and give it an exception to the firewall rule). Essentially what you're trying to prevent is your shitty smart TV that hard codes 8.8.8.8 as the DNS server from bypassing your DNS with DoH because you can't just block/redirect 443 like you can with 853 and 53.

Thanks, this is good info. I have asuswrt-merlin and it appears to support dnscrpyt-proxy, so I'll have to set some time aside to set this up.

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it auto turns off v2 apps
work around till next wave is.
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Spoiler: nothing here

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/issues/2665

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Should be noted that this flag will likely be removed in 139, currently scheduled for August 5th.

 

[TerribleUser09]

It seems that solution leads to possesing kind of NAS with PiHole on it to browse the web adfree.

Frankly, I don't care at all. Chrome/Google is doing what monopoly always does - subverting everyone else to their ways. It's not like they are enforcing to use Chrome with limited adblock. They are aware that most of the web browsing is either by their Chrome loadfuck or browser that is depended on their web engine.

 

[Terrifik]

Should be noted that this flag will likely be removed in 139, currently scheduled for August 5th.

where is that listed for ref?
but, Thanks !