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Users online are reporting on Reddit and X that Chrome is removing outdated extensions.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

There are instructions on the link for potential support up to 142, which are a little more involved (using unpacked extensions, developer mode, etc.), but posting the basic instructions for 138-140 for reference:



I should note that I'm on 138 and still had to disable the flags for deprecation-disabled and deprecation-unsupported to get UBO back. In the process of migrating over to LibreWolf though

For those who know code and pcs and shit is there anyway the devs can make ublock work?

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

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.

Browser spoofing is something I already use and I recommend you do too.

It is how we got around "this browser is not compatible." in the old days.
E: This app is called User-Agent Switcher and Manager.
There's probably others out there but this one works for me.

 

[barrow greeter]

For those who know code and pcs and shit is there anyway the devs can make ublock work?

Not after Manifest V2 is gone, Manifest V3 extensions require interaction with Google servers to function, and cannot be run entirely client-side like Manifest V2.

 

[JakeMorgendorffer]

For those who know code and pcs and shit is there anyway the devs can make ublock work?

I'd imagine that if one of these alternative browsers were to fork off of the last branch of chromium to support manifest v2 to build their browser, they could theoretically support it for a while. This might be the route Brave is taking, but over time as they diverge further and further from Chromium, it will be harder to work updates (including security updates) from the Chromium team into their version. Maybe there's a way to hard-bake an effective adblock in though.

But even if a chromium-based browser supports mv2, many of them rely on the Chrome Web Store for plugins. Google has said they're going to be removing non-compliant addons at some point after the cutoff, meaning these browsers would need to work in their own plugin marketplace or users would need to manually install stuff like UBO.

IIRC the main thing that's killing uBlock Origin is that Google is limiting the # of records on the list that handles domain blocking to 100 lines while also limiting UBOs ability to update said list -- or something to that effect

 

[Snackbarism]

Not only has it fucked uBlock, but also things like The Marvelous Suspender which would suspend tabs after a period of disuse.

Is there any alternative to the above? Also, can uBlock Origin Lite be seen as tolerable for the time being?

I do have Firefox and Brave on here so should probably get a move on switching to that for my main browser.

Unfortunately it was only a matter of time before Google cranked up their retardation on this, especially with most of the browser share belonging to Chromium based stuff now.

 

[GilaCutter]

Isn't 4chan so dogshit it's barely readable these days?

I wouldn't know, I don't go to any of the big boards

 

[whatever I feel like]

Isn't 4chan so dogshit it's barely readable these days?

The opposite, its so dead that threads hang around for days instead of dying in under an hour.

 

[dick brain]

It's backed by mullvad (durr) and the tor project

Isn't TOR created and maintained by the USAF or something?

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.

You can do this in Trannyfox as well with an extension called Video Background Play Fix or something like that. There's also an extension to force youtube to play videos in a specific quality (useful to force HD, equally useful to force SD to save data) and some other stuff I don't remember. Plus ublock and ghostery and other shit. It's fucking cucked compared to desktop but still a viable option.

Bankers don't think like humans.

That's because they aren't.

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

Youtube doesn't run ads to sell you products, it runs ads to sell you Youtube Premium.

The future is to pay youtubers and people on the internet to lie about your product.

Nigger that's the present.

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.

Yeah, the gravity of this didn't really hit me until a few days ago. I was reading about that guy who cut his dad's head off because he was too deep into qanon conspiracy theories or whatever, and it sounded like he was found competent to stand trial, which blew me away. If you played out the same events fifty years ago -- some guy screaming about reptilians and clones of hollywood celebrities or whatever -- they'd 100% declare him schizo, but because the same delusional canon of information has been relayed to an individual through algorithmically curated echo chambers, he's suddenly sane? Which got me questioning what acts and behaviors and intentionally incepted and directed through the curation of information. Which got me thinking about a hypothetical dystopia where all information and communications are subject to a man-in-the-middle attack, where everybody has an AI handler that relays to them only information that incentivizes desired behaviors regardless of veracity. But then it I realized that that's not dystopian fiction, that's just the world we live in. Everybody has an algorithmic "handler" feeding them information tailored to incite specific behaviors; as of now we're lead to believe that the extent of that behavioral manipulation is engagement farming, i.e. showing you compelling or engaging or enraging content in order to keep you engaged and generating ad revenue. But who's to say that won't change, or hasn't already? Facebook, Reddit and Twitter have all been revealed to have actively participated in the manufacturing of consensus; who's to say that doesn't extend to search engine results? Does the censorship of anti-fag sentiment count as manufacturing of consensus, for example? What about covid facts? Surely the deliberate skewing of election results counts? Does it run deeper? Would anyone even be surprised? And what does it say, that these are all things we all know, but don't often think about in the context of our online interactions and day-to-day information acquisition?

There is a war going on for your mind.

I'm a tech illiterate, so let me summarize this thread for retards like myself. I basically have to keep using Brave until it also gets fucked over by Google, then change to LibreWolf + uBlock Origin. When LibreWolf / Firefox stop working, I'll have to use AdNauseam or AdGuard. Hopefully this will keep the ads away for at least 2-3 years. Then we'll have to pray for Ladybird to exist and not be pozzed by default. Is that it?

God, it's all so tiresome.

I'm going to reiterate a point I made months ago:

The enfaggening of the Internet has succeeded in getting me to stop using virtually all of the sites and services I used to use, and in every single case with zero exceptions my life has become better for it. I stopped using social media and my life is better for it. I stopped using twitter and my life is better for it. I stopped using reddit and my life is better for it. I stopped using twitch and my life is better for it. I stopped playing video games and my life is better for it. I stopped watching porn and my life is better for it. I stopped using streaming services and my life is better for it. I stopped reading jewgle news and kikepedia and my life is better for it.

I run ublock, and if a site complains about ublock or throws up a popup trying to get me to download an app or subscribe to their spam, I open up the little ublock menu and disable javascript on that site. If it still does annoying shit, I switch to reader mode. If either of those things break the site, I stop using the site. Invariably, my life is better for it.

I genuinely have no idea of Chromium has dropped support for uBlock Origin yet, because I do not update Chromium. I'm not even sure Chromium has an auto-update function, but if it does I don't use it. I have switched browsers more times than I can count in the last twenty years for inconveniences FAR pettier than this. If one browser gets fagged up, I will find another; if they all get fagged up, I will turn off my device and go outside. And my life will be better for it.

There is nothing to worry about.

 

[skunt]

Isn't TOR created and maintained by the USAF or something?

It was created by the US Navy, probably the greatest gift the navy has given.

 

[dick brain]

Any good "free" sources where you can download them?

Private trackers and yt-dlp, but also we're living through the Golden Age of audiobooks because you can just have AI Joshua Graham or Dagoth Ur read you whatever book you want.

Been using firefox since 2004. Zero ads

Tho I do wonder how long until Firefox cucks out

If you've been using Firefox since 2004 then you know that every single time Google makes some terrible dogshit decision Mozilla follows suit within six months.

 

[Kiislova]

Not after Manifest V2 is gone, Manifest V3 extensions require interaction with Google servers to function, and cannot be run entirely client-side like Manifest V2.

I've written simple extensions in V2 and V3 and can confirm this is NOT a thing.

 

[guiltyspark85]

Not only has it fucked uBlock, but also things like The Marvelous Suspender which would suspend tabs after a period of disuse.

Is there any alternative to the above?

Brave has tab suspend built-in, but it doesn't have the all features of that extension.

 

[Overly Serious]

IIRC the main thing that's killing uBlock Origin is that Google is limiting the # of records on the list that handles domain blocking to 100 lines while also limiting UBOs ability to update said list -- or something to that effect

There's a technical overview and some links in my earlier post in this thread:
/threads/googles-chrome-extension-cull-hits-more-ublock-origin-users.213596/post-21966755

Short version is yes, as you say. But probably worth at least a skim through to understand the details. I tried to be concise (for me).

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

Yeah, the gravity of this didn't really hit me until a few days ago. I was reading about that guy who cut his dad's head off because he was too deep into qanon conspiracy theories or whatever, and it sounded like he was found competent to stand trial, which blew me away. If you played out the same events fifty years ago -- some guy screaming about reptilians and clones of hollywood celebrities or whatever...

The enfaggening of the Internet has succeeded in getting me to stop using virtually all of the sites and services I used to use, and in every single case with zero exceptions my life has become better for it. I stopped using social media and my life is better for it. I stopped using twitter and my life is better for it. I stopped using reddit and my life is better for it. I stopped using twitch and my life is better for it. I stopped playing video games and my life is better for it. I stopped watching porn and my life is better for it. I stopped using streaming services and my life is better for it. I stopped reading jewgle news and kikepedia and my life is better for it.

It seems like that there is a collaborated attempt from all established fronts to make life worse for essentially everybody but themselves and it has ramped up and doubled down after the ICANN sellout by Obama in 2016 (meaning that the Internet is now under EU law and the Europeans are not democratic). It's not just the Internet, Gacha games and the F2P are present some time at the early 2010s and games just go all downhill from there. And then you have soft drinks tasting like sugar-filled swill, packaged food being smaller and cruddier, television dramas (and to some extent anime and manga) being more or less the same... the list goes on and on.

And then since you bring up porn it reminds me of another subject. You go look at the people, you can post weird porn and shock images on IRC before like 2014 and people laugh at you.

Now people are much more vicious, I dunno how many of them are disguised Interpol or EU internet warriors, were working directly for the UN or were just delusional, but the moment you post weird porn or shock images anywhere, you get banned and/or cancelled and you're never coming back. Banned. Cooked. Gone forever. And its not just the subject of weird porn and gore either, you have to watch out about what you say or post all the time because every perceived tripping the line might get you a ban.

If you've been using Firefox since 2004 then you know that every single time Google makes some terrible dogshit decision Mozilla follows suit within six months.

All big tech fronts work in unison with each other to enshittify everything and anything you have until there is nowhere left to go. As for smaller groups, they are either trannies or are using Chronium (a.k.a. still a slave to google).

I am not suprised if they manage to make it impossible to block ADs or cookies because Google got the Europeans and INTERPOL to on their side and The EU/UN made Adblockers tantamount to obstructing business and actually arrest/fine people over it. At that point Firefox doesn't need to phase out Manifest V2 because the EU already had everything handled.

Monopoly is a toll and it will be the death knell for all of us.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

I honestly was thinking it would be Windows with their "White listing" for apps that would be the killer with later versions of windows. Where in order to get anything to install on your PC it'd have to be whitelisted. That was the future I thought we'd come to. But it looks like Google chrome is beating Microsoft to the punch with their bullshit.

 

[Lian Xing]

Not after Manifest V2 is gone, Manifest V3 extensions require interaction with Google servers to function, and cannot be run entirely client-side like Manifest V2.

In order to browse a third party website, the browser has to communicate with google? That’s insane.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Except



Did you guys not read the article?

Brave blocks ads natively, it's built in.

 

[Flatline]

For those who don't know, you can still force Chrome (for now) to make Ublock Origin (and other apps Chrome turned off) to work.

A Ublock origin dev posted the instructions (with a video) on Reddit. Here is a link: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1lwztf1/ublockorigin_fully_disabled_on_chrome_now/

Post archive links to the instructions and videos before the stupid, Google-backed Reddit mods take them down.

Brave has tab suspend built-in, but it doesn't have the all features of that extension.
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Firefox, as of version 140, also has tab suspension built in.

 

[Overly Serious]

I honestly was thinking it would be Windows with their "White listing" for apps that would be the killer with later versions of windows. Where in order to get anything to install on your PC it'd have to be whitelisted. That was the future I thought we'd come to. But it looks like Google chrome is beating Microsoft to the punch with their bullshit.

The threat is whoever currently has the monopoly, because the danger isn't based on ill-intent - that's a given. It's based on capacity to act on it.

 

[Bob Faget]

A little off topic but have yall niggas tried listening to music on youtube without and adblock, its fucking unusable. Especially if you like listening to full albums,you will never get a clear transition because the adds, and if its a somewhat longer song youll get midroll ads, like tf. Not just music though ads on yt in general have gotten comepletly out of hand. Like 30 second unskippable ads are you fucking kidding me. Now i just exit the video until the ad disapears, just on principle