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Users online are reporting on Reddit and X that Chrome is removing outdated extensions.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

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

This is why I go to either Invidious or use PipePipe on mobile, and both Invidious and mobile automatically block ads and let you listen to stuff in audio-only if you want.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

A little off topic but have yall niggas tried listening to music on youtube without and adblock

Why would I do that? That sounds like zoomer tier retardation. revanced works perfectly fine on mobile and smart tube on my shield.

 

[Gas Station Nachos]

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

I switched from Firefox to Chrome because Firefox was bloated and run like ass. Now Chrome is killing off uBlock and Youtube is basically unusable without an adblocker (or a subscription but there's no way I'm giving Google money) I've gone back to Firefox. Now Firefox is still pretty bloated but it runs fine on a modern machine with loads of ram and a recent-ish CPU.

 

[Hannibalistique]

Brave has tab suspend built-in, but it doesn't have the all features of that extension.
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That looks identical to the built-in Chrome version of that functionality? What has Brave modified?

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

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

Spotify has that as well, also plays audio ADs between every other song if you have no Adblock. It's pretty much unusable without an adblocker and the application version sucks elephant dick.

Speaking of non-youtube sites that are unusable w/o an adblock though, I would say Fandom and Rule34.xxx are also virtually unusable without one. Are there any other sites that are just as bad, if not worse?

 

[GunCar Gary]

YouTube Premium, mainly because sideloading is a pain in the ass on iOS.

use ios - it just works

pay for youtube premium - it just works

way easier than spending a bunch of time using 10 different apps/plugins to remove ads on youtube. until youtube decides to start showing ads for premium users eventually

 

[PoopyFarts]

Ok I only use kiwifarms anyways, I barely watch youtube anymore as well.

Know this is late, but whatever... If you use Android you can use ReVanced Extended. It essentially gives you YouTube Premium for free. You can also activate other features like sponsor block that will recognize and autoskip when they start talking about Displate, Magic Spoon, or whatever bullshit your favorite YouTubers are trying to shill.

I don't blame them for taking the bag to make a buck, but I'm not gonna watch it.

Edit: It may be available for ios as well, but I don't know anything about that as I don't use it.

use ios - it just works

pay for youtube premium - it just works

way easier than spending a bunch of time using 10 different apps/plugins to remove ads on youtube. until youtube decides to start showing ads for premium users eventually

See above. ReVanced Extended. If you've got two braincells to rub together its pretty easy to install that and MicroG. Again, I'm only talking Android though. If you use Apple, then you've got terminal faggotry and there is no help for you.

 

[Vulpe]

It's funny how they always try to make using adblockers inconvenient, like they don't understand that people who use adblock will go to any length to block ads. Watching ads is more inconvenient for me than spending 18hrs getting my adblock to work.
This doesn't bother me because when my ad block stops working, I'll find another way to block ads somehow. I don't care about your shitty products, I won't watch your ads

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

It's funny how they always try to make using adblockers inconvenient, like they don't understand that people who use adblock will go to any length to block ads. Watching ads is more inconvenient for me than spending 18hrs getting my adblock to work.
This doesn't bother me because when my ad block stops working, I'll find another way to block ads somehow. I don't care about your shitty products, I won't watch your ads

The people who use it too, aren't going to impulse buy ad products too.
We're honestly doing them a service by letting actual customers see their ads instead.

 

[ZealotCrustacean101]

When someone in power says that their intentions behind their actions are for "Security and privacy" reasons, it carries a double meaning in my mind

 

[guiltyspark85]

That looks identical to the built-in Chrome version of that functionality? What has Brave modified?

Sorry, assumed this was something Brave implemented themselves and didn't realise it was from upstream.

 

[HairyBadger]

Google is an advertising company that dabbles in Tech.

dont use their services.

 

[HelloDotJPG]

Ads are a jewish invention and I don't like jews.

 

[JakeMorgendorffer]

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

No. At least not in the way you're thinking.

Most websites will have some form of scripts sourced from Google for various functionality (including ads, tracking, and metrics), and also common libraries such as bootstrap and jQuery which are the building blocks of the modern web. Blocking the telemetry scripts works to varying degrees, but blocking the script libraries can break sites completely. Most libraries aren't specific to Google though and can come from other sources.

However, this thread is about Manifest V2 and V3, where V3 is more or less handicapping adblock developers by removing their ability to filter traffic directly, forcing them to use hardcoded API requests instead, simultaneously limiting their use of said API, and limiting their ability to update their code more frequently.

Spoiler: More detailed sperging

The extensions may or may not interact with a third-party website you're visiting depending on the purpose and permissions requested. Some of those Twitch extensions only inject code into Twitch, for example. but UBO on the other hand will process any site you visit. This is because it uses two steps to remove ads and tracking scripts; first is a proxy that redirects anything matching it's rules to a DNS sinkhole (so your computer never actually downloads that content), and the second step is a visual filter that injects CSS to hide elements, which improves the look of the site after step 1.

As I understand it, in the context of uBlock Origin, extensions will no longer be allowed to directly filter network traffic and must instead declare their filter rules in the code (instead of using an external rule list) and use the delcarativeNetRequest API. From there, Chrome will take these API requests and process the network filtering rules it is given. However, Google has limited the number of rules an extension can have to a small amount (50-100 total), and since these rules are now hardcoded the developer is at Google's whim on how often they'll be able to update their extension. Now, I'm not sure whether or not the second step of visual filtering will function in manifest v3, because it also uses dynamic rules to determine what CSS elements to modify, but I'd assume not.

Google's official stance for this change is that it improves security by limiting potentially malicious remotely hosted code. Now, malicious extensions have been an issue for Google with rogue developers who create innocuous-looking extensions that your parents/grandparents/retarded sibling get tricked into installing, It'll range from the mostly harmless of replacing links to Amazon, Walmart, etc. with referral links that earn the developer money (a classic Honey and Brave tactic) to the destructive exploits such as credential stealing or allowing remote code execution (RCE) to fuck with the computer. Now whether this change will actually prevent that stuff is still to be seen, but that's their excuse.

 

[Florid Icewater]

The people who use it too, aren't going to impulse buy ad products too.

they should give you the option of doing a little IQ test in the form of a logic puzzle rather than watching the ad, and if you complete it within 15 or 30 seconds or whatever then you're too smart to advertise to and they won't show try to show you any more ads for a day.

dumb people will be like "hrrrg.. what's that annoying box get that shit outta my face - HA HA FUNNY AD!"

 

[kkreemstar]

they should give you the option of doing a little IQ test in the form of a logic puzzle rather than watching the ad, and if you complete it within 15 or 30 seconds or whatever then you're too smart to advertise to and they won't show try to show you any more ads for a day.

dumb people will be like "hrrrg.. what's that annoying box get that shit outta my face - HA HA FUNNY AD!"

any kind of logic puzzle, simple ones, can break their shit. did you hear that chatgpt can't play chess and lost to an atari game? its different than libraries and language MODELS. thats all you can code. the logic behind it is how things really work.

What I don't get, and is total bullshit. Talk all day about what ever they're doing but, tell me, why ANY copy protection can be CRACKED, but people literally make claims that "OMG you can't crack the new youtube age restriction block guys". BULLSHIT.
What the fuck ever. Anyone could crack this shit but when you have people telling you, nope this is impossible, even these people who claim themselves as coders, or crackers are sold out faggots who want to turn my internet into a TV- where you have no input, and pay for ads.

BTW if you think theres any fault in that reasoning, you know that why you get junk mail at your mailbox is because of the united States copyright laws,that gives your addresses to the junk mailers. This is why when you sign up for a phone you get spam calls- there is (was) literally a number you could call to have your number taken off the spam list. Its by law or some shit. Somehow this is reasonable to fucking faggot usa laws. (got to have advertising in any communication.) All those excuses that they can lie all the time, then never solve the issue (like Epstein). And carry on with it.

So no excuses, crack the age restriction shit (oh noes the children; get some parenting fags or the gubmint will be indoctrinating your kids with tranny shit). Its not a win its an arguement or a fight or debate were they don't want to lose. Sitting back doing nothing dont give me damn excuses that you CAN'T.

can someone explain why they claim in actual details why they won't/can't crack age restriction bypass? Is there some hidden website I can't find that has a crack for this? Someone give me the link to the real crackers website

 

[boxybum]

Haven't used Chrome for a few years now. Only time I go back is when I am absolutely forced to and then I keep the sessions short. Fuck Google. Fuck Ads. Fuck this corporate greed. At some point the amount of ads will have diminishing returns when you shove them down everyones throats every minute. True story, I was using a smart TV at a boomers house and tried the YouTube app. A 10 minute video had 6 fucking ads. The first ad was 30 seconds and unskippable. There are more fucking ads than cable television. Its is egregious.

 

[OPShredder]

Right. "Privacy." As if I would ever want to give them all my data again.

 

[Krusty Rage]

Brave say they are not affected https://x.com/brave/status/1945208336464412698

 

[HelloDotJPG]

Brave say they are not affected https://x.com/brave/status/1945208336464412698

For now. Jewgle might tweak V3 a bit more and render everything that even remotely resembles an adblocker useless.