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Users online are reporting on Reddit and X that Chrome is removing outdated extensions.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

Well the way to prevent people hating ads so much is to not overreach. Few people cared when ads were a banner across the top of the page like old school print newspapers and magazines. Then came auto-playing pop-up ads with sound and this is what kicked off adblockers. The industry has for the most part backed off from those but it's only become more subtle. Google want to track everything you do so they can target ads at you specifically. And tell their real customers the businesses, that this makes their ads so much more valuable than anybody else's. Tracking is Google's ring fence around the business. Without it, just anybody could sell advertising space on websites. No, they must know everything about you so that their ad service is more valuable than anybody else's.

Also, some people may not have been around when ads would spread malicious code back in the earlier days. (and still does today, but to a lesser extent?) That code would install programs to hock bogus anti-malware programs to fleece people, i.e. the infamous SpyAxe.

 

[skunt]

I was going to be pessimistic and question why people think the ladybird browser will be any different to every other open source project nowadays (pozzed). I checked and this is their code of conduct

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

The Ladybird code of conduct is derived from The Ruby Community Conduct Guideline.

• Participants will be tolerant of opposing views.
• Participants must ensure that their language and actions are free of personal attacks and disparaging personal remarks.
• When interpreting the words and actions of others, participants should always assume good intentions.
• Behavior that can be reasonably considered harassment will not be tolerated.

I'd bet most people are as surprised as me. Fingers crossed it's good, though we'll be waiting a while..

 

[Overly Serious]

This is really interesting, I wish I had the knowledge to understand what goes into creating a browser like this. It's basically just magic to me.

Well you've overcome the biggest obstacle to understanding this stuff which is to think it will be easy. A lot of people when faced with something complex go in, look, don't understand it and their brain just shuts off. Instead of thinking 'oh, I'm not going to understand this in one go, what shall I read first?'.

The code is written in C++ and can be found here: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
And the documentation is actually contained within the code linked above, here: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/tree/master/Documentation

Not that I imagine you could or would start contributing code, but reading the Getting Started documentation is a thread you can pull on to begin understanding it. You can also just roam around the code base and occasionally go "huh" when you see something you recognize like definitions of Back Buttons etc. in a file. https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/UI/Qt/BrowserWindow.h

Anyway, for those who aren't C++ programmers with the time to get their head around an entirely new and non-trivial codebase, it's a project funded by donations. https://donorbox.org/ladybird I might as well shill it (I have no association with them, btw, I just really, really want to see a new and independent browser on the scene rather than the Google de-facto monopoly. Even Edge is just re-skinned Chrome these days).

They hope to go to Early Adopters next year, a public Beta the year after that and full stable releases in 2028. Building a new browser bottom up is no small task. So if it looks like magic to you that's no great surprise really. It's a big task that requires time to really understand.

 

[iPhone 4 16GB (White)]

They hope to go to Early Adopters next year, a public Beta the year after that and full stable releases in 2028.

there will be nothing worthwhile in the 2028 internet. Well done

 

[Grotesque Bushes]

The moment I see ads I'll finally set up pihole. And if they somehow get around dns level blocking - I'll stop using the gay part of the Internet, even if it's all of it.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

I was going to be pessimistic and question why people think the ladybird browser will be any different to every other open source project nowadays (pozzed). I checked and this is their code of conduct

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

I'd bet most people are as surprised as me. Fingers crossed it's good, though we'll be waiting a while..

Having a good code of conduct is like having a good heart attack.

 

[BigHeadScientYakub]

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/grayjay-app.173780/

For anyone still using YouTube, try Grayjay, now available in a buggy alpha release on desktop. I've done at least 48 hours of viewing/listening with it.

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

The most sinister thing about all of this is that if something manages to block ads anyway on Manifest-V3 they can easily pressure lawmakers or the EU/UNESCO complex into signing bad laws that will completely ban all adblockers and it will go completely unopposed.

Remember that the moment you go to the internet right now, you are instantly subject to EU law instead of your country's laws because ICANN is now in Switzerland (Thank Obama for it by the way). These are NOT freedom friendly institutions at all and they never are. So the moment the UN or the European Union pass a law to ban adblockers the Pajeets just autowin.

 

[Lady Adjani]

The moment I see ads I'll finally set up pihole. And if they somehow get around dns level blocking - I'll stop using the gay part of the Internet, even if it's all of it.

Maybe it’s just me, but outside this place, amazon and one other website I use for general news, there really isn’t much of a reason to browse other sites.

So much of the web nowadays is SEO cancer and AI junk that it honestly isn’t worth sifting through for that one snippet of actual content that you might like.

 

[Overly Serious]

The most sinister thing about all of this is that if something manages to block ads anyway on Manifest-V3 they can easily pressure lawmakers or the EU/UNESCO complex into signing bad laws that will completely ban all adblockers and it will go completely unopposed.

Remember that the moment you go to the internet right now, you are instantly subject to EU law instead of your country's laws because ICANN is now in Switzerland (Thank Obama for it by the way). These are NOT freedom friendly institutions at all and they never are. So the moment the UN or the European Union pass a law to ban adblockers the Pajeets just autowin.

Even if well-intentioned (debatable), they'll hash it up because they are less intelligent than the general population. Case in point being their attempt to protect people's privacy with the GDPR cookie nonsense. Prior to it, I would disable Third Party cookies in my browser and block cookies entirely from sites I didn't want them from. Post their legal intervention, every single site now posts up an extremely tiresome cookie selection screen if it can't read cookies for the site stored in your browser. Even if you laboriously select "Essential cookies only" what you're doing is now being forced to store a trackable cookie in your browser. It may not be readable by Google but who knows what the site does with information?

Their efforts to ensure privacy of browsing users made the Web all but unusuable for those wanting to actually protect their privacy.

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

Maybe it’s just me, but outside this place, amazon and one other website I use for general news, there really isn’t much of a reason to browse other sites.

So much of the web nowadays is SEO cancer and AI junk that it honestly isn’t worth sifting through for that one snippet of actual content that you might like.

there will be nothing worthwhile in the 2028 internet. Well done

You can just thank Obama for it. Yes, I am serious with this. There are lots of people who are conditioned to completely ignore this or won't even believe or imagine it but something definitely changed past 2016 and then suddenly the only thing you can go to on the Internet boils down to Wikipedia, Fandom, MSM news networks, Youtube, Twitter, Reddit or some AI slop site (this is new since October 2022), all of them speaking in harmonic accordance to strict EU censorship laws.

And guess what? Unless if the EU or the UN somehow collapses entirely with the system, people can be fully aware but they will not be able to do anything against it.

Even if well-intentioned (debatable), they'll hash it up because they are less intelligent than the general population. Case in point being their attempt to protect people's privacy with the GDPR cookie nonsense. Prior to it, I would disable Third Party cookies in my browser and block cookies entirely from sites I didn't want them from. Post their legal intervention, every single site now posts up an extremely tiresome cookie selection screen if it can't read cookies for the site stored in your browser. Even if you laboriously select "Essential cookies only" what you're doing is now being forced to store a trackable cookie in your browser. It may not be readable by Google but who knows what the site does with information?

Their efforts to ensure privacy of browsing users made the Web all but unusuable for those wanting to actually protect their privacy.

Mass murderers and serial killers are not smart. They only need to get the job done and make sure it stays even if they collapse. I can easily bet that whatever this information is for it will be used by UN peacekeepers and Far Left/Neo-Nazi terror squads to obliterate people for wrongthink.

Trump and the White House is the final thin thread of balance keeping the entire world apart and all it takes is a violent communist revolution in the states to topple it and then Antifa can and will kill you over a single tweet with the word "Faggot" made a decade ago.

Getting access to your information is how they managed to kill nearly every single philospher in Rome, cancel and struggle billions in Maoist China and cut down 1 million Tutsi in Rwanda with Machetes within 3 months. Remember the people behind this are the idea-bearers and descendants of people who had instigated the Dark Ages and at least 5 large blood orgies at the 20th century. This era will not be an exception.

 

[Grotesque Bushes]

Maybe it’s just me, but outside this place, amazon and one other website I use for general news, there really isn’t much of a reason to browse other sites.

So much of the web nowadays is SEO cancer and AI junk that it honestly isn’t worth sifting through for that one snippet of actual content that you might like.

It's depressing, but I'm more or less in the same boat. Aside from the farms and staying in touch with people I use the internet to do my shopping and pay bills. And listen to music/watch interesting youtube stuff, but that may come to an end sooner than later.

 

[Joe Cool]

Also, some people may not have been around when ads would spread malicious code back in the earlier days. (and still does today, but to a lesser extent?) That code would install programs to hock bogus anti-malware programs to fleece people, i.e. the infamous SpyAxe.

I've had DoubleClick (Google) serve ads to my Android devices which would attempt to download an APK to my device. This was what made me remove Chrome and switch to Firefox + uBlock Origin. As far as I'm concerned, Google are complicit where it comes to spreading malware.

 

[iPhone 4 16GB (White)]

It's depressing, but I'm more or less in the same boat. Aside from the farms and staying in touch with people I use the internet to do my shopping and pay bills. And listen to music/watch interesting youtube stuff, but that may come to an end sooner than later.

The internet functionally and conceptually doesn’t exist anymore. That is if you consider it and define it the way it was in the 2000s and maybe early 2010s

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

The internet functionally and conceptually doesn’t exist anymore. That is if you consider it and define it the way it was in the 2000s and maybe early 2010s

Welcome to the new United Nations internet. This is what happens if you give up one of your most important infrastructures to full-blown globalism and internationalism.

And guess what? You don't turn back from this. You're just fucked, period.

 

[Jomi]

I'm loathe to update anything due to my laziness (still haven't built my new PC but had the components for months) but adblocking is non-negotiable for me, I'll use whatever browser facilitates this.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

Welcome to the new United Nations internet. This is what happens if you give up one of your most important infrastructures to full-blown globalism and internationalism.

And guess what? You don't turn back from this. You're just fucked, period.

Meh, the internet kinda sucks anyways. Aside from convenience when it comes to ordering books or paying bills I don't think my life would be much different if the internet shut off tomorrow.

 

[Rolex]

Someone may have already posted this, but for anyone who has an urgent need to use chrome (from reddit, sorry):

1. Enter chrome://flags in chrome’s URL input
2. Search for ‘Allow legacy extension manifest versions’
3. Enable it and relaunch browser
4. Download the latest zip file of uBlock version from github: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases
5. Under Assets, download the chromium zip and extract it
6. Open the extension page in chrome, click the Load Unpacked button on top left side load (enable Developer Mode in the top right if it doesn't appear), then select the extracted folder.

 

[Kiislova]

blocks ads for the least amount of effort on my end

That would be Brave with all defaults. Boomer dad tier to have it working.

They cannot win

They can try to use the already existing web DRM standards (thanks Mozilla and W3C for that cuckening) to fuck you up. Making youtube simply not work on 3rd party players or non-google-sanctioned browsers. They are 1 click away from that, why don't they do it I don't know.

I checked and this is their code of conduct

Tat caused some seething because IIRC some troon wanted a CoC expecting the project would choose some of "theirs" and instead the project chose one that kindly told the troon to fuck off.

 

[Never Scored]

Bro, just use Firefox. Outside of a brief flirtation with Pale Moon before it got shitty, I've been using Firefox since like 2007. It works fine and it lets you block ads. The foundation has been infiltrated by trannies, but so has every tech company. If you want to use tech that hasn't been infiltrated by autistic trannies, your options are going to be extremely limited. Maybe you can dial into a BBS and say nigger on the wall or something. I'm not saying Firefox is perfect, but when you use it, you don't get the impression that the creators actively loathe the end user.