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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads ​

Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
By Kevin Okemwa, published yesterday

What you need to know​

• Google is transitioning Chrome's extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
• This means users won't be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
• However, there's a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn't boast the original version's comprehensive ad-blocking features.

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Google's campaign against ad blockers across its services just got more aggressive. According to a report by PC World, the company has made some alterations to its extension support on Google Chrome.

Google Chrome recently changed its extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the new Manifest V3 framework. The browser policy changes will impact one of the most popular adblockers (arguably), uBlock Origin.

The transition to the Manifest V3 framework means extensions like uBlock Origin can't use remotely hosted code. According to Google, it "presents security risks by allowing unreviewed code to be executed in extensions." The new policy changes will only allow an extension to execute JavaScript as part of its package.

Over 30 million Google Chrome users use uBlock Origin, but the tool will be automatically disabled soon via an update. Google will let users enable the feature via the settings for a limited period before it's completely scrapped. From this point, users will be forced to switch to another browser or choose another ad blocker.

A new version of uBlock Origin​

uBlock Origin fans can rest at ease since a new and improved version is already available — uBlock Origin Lite. It's worth noting that while the new app ships with similar features to the original version, including core ad-blocking features, it doesn't support dynamic filters for blocking scriptlet injection. The Lite version's capabilities are relatively limited due to its compliance with the Manifest V3 framework threshold.

According to uBlock Origin's developer Raymond Hill

"I consider uBO Lite to be too different from uBO to be an automatic replacement. You will have to explicitly find a replacement to uBO according to what you expect from a content blocker. uBO Lite may or may not fulfill your expectations."

uBlock Origin will continue to work as usual across other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, and more.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

This is google throwing a tantrum because of the monopoly ruling.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

Firefox is indeed moving to support MV3, but unlike Google they aren't going to drop MV2 and continuing to support those extensions is one of their selling points.

Oh please, this is bullshit. Eventually Firefox is going to sputter out a statement in time about how its too expensive to continue MV2 legacy support and drop it leaving everyone fucked. I've seen this tactic over and over so many times from the industry that I don't believe it for a minute.

 

[Seething Troon Collector]

The doomposting in this thread is killing me. How many people use ublock and the like? If the YouTube bullshit is any indication, the absolutely vitriolic hate and discontent against Alphabet and their advertiser paypiggies combined with weaponized autism will produce a solution.

This is just a dumb idea, but what about a fork of chromium that’s community supported and any updates are included, but the manifestv2 stuff isn’t ripped out. Im not saying it’s a great idea or even possible, I also want to see how brave implements this. It can be called….

Spoiler

Sneedium

Eventually Firefox is going to sputter out a statement in time about how it’s too expensive to continue MV2 legacy support and drop it leaving everyone fucked.

Mozilla is a pozzed shell of its former self, kept alive only for Alphabet to maintain some semblance of controlled opposition. They bent the knee to the likes of Elliot Fong and his masters a long time ago. I fully expect them to drop support for Mv2 if daddy Alphabet says he’s cutting the Mozilla kickbacks and globalhomo NGO budget to $0. If push comes to
Shove, Mozilla will be doing of the needful Saar and drop Mv2 into the designated shitting street.

Bottom line. Null is right. Browsers shouldn’t be owned by companies. Back when Washington D.C. wasn’t full of girldick apologists taking it up the ass in the capitol building, they had the balls to kick Microsoft’s teeth in. Now they line up to accept whatever big tech faggotry they need to in order to keep Google running psyops to influence their campaigns and suppress dissident opinions.

Bunch of riggers!

 

[George Lucas]

Joke’s on you I’m still using Netscape Navigator.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Bottom line. Null is right. Browsers shouldn’t be owned by companies.

At this point it doesn't even matter. Companies like Google or Amazon have unlimited money to burn on attacking adblocking or anti-tracking software. Almost no browsers by default have any sort of major tracking or spam protection enabled. Google will spend billions developing ad serving software and so they will never be not incentivized to crush any ad blocking capable browser or extension.

YouTube is literally experimenting with serving video advertisements directly into the video stream of what you are watching. You could force Google to split Chrome from itself with some monopoly restriction law and it would make no difference as long as people still relied to much on places like Google for search or YouTube for video hosting.

Advertising and tracking are the real problems. It's what makes owning a browser so essential for companies like Google or Apple.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Hopefully there is an antitrust suit brought against Google's browser monopoly too. Any day now.

That would require the boomers in charge to know what a browser is.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

Still think it's funny that there are people on desktops that go out of their way to download Chrome when pretty much every operating system imaginable comes with a browser that is superior to it.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Still think it's funny that there are people on desktops that go out of their way to download Chrome when pretty much every operating system imaginable comes with a browser that is superior to it.

It's because Edge inherited Internet Explorer's reputation. I still shit bricks when I accidentally open Edge because I remember IE6.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Anybody not using Brave is a retard and deserves this.

Also, if you think Firefox will save you, remember that they rely on Google for 90% of their revenue so lol

 

[popnloch ness monster]

Anybody not using Brave is a retard and deserves this.

Brave is such a gay name for a browser, though

 

[Fellen]

Google sucks, people should know better than to use any of their products.

 

[Not a bee]

I switched to Opera on my computer a year ago, but I heard it has its flaws too. I'm happy with it though.
Forgive my extra chromosomes, but what are good browser reccomendations for android phone users? I want something that can transfer my passwords over.

 

[SIMIΔN]

but what are good browser reccomendations for android phone users?

Brave has a mobile version and still blocks ads, including YouTube's

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Brave has a mobile version and still blocks ads, including YouTube's

Brave is great. I FINALLY dumped Firefox and essentially never use chrome anymore (personally) and it feels good.

I just gotta switch my phone to brave 100% and we're all set

 

[anustart76]

Oh please, this is bullshit. Eventually Firefox is going to sputter out a statement in time about how its too expensive to continue MV2 legacy support and drop it leaving everyone fucked. I've seen this tactic over and over so many times from the industry that I don't believe it for a minute.

Sooner or later, Mozilla will decide it's too expensive to maintain Gecko and will become another Chrome wrapper so they can fund more troonery and their retarded CEO.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Microsoft Edge

Jebus. Is Google really trying to force me onto Librewolf. Sigh.

 

[clipartfan92]

Forgive my extra chromosomes, but what are good browser reccomendations for android phone users?

You shouldn't be saving passwords in your browser. KeePassDX works great on Android, KeePassXC on PC. As to the browsers:

My current recommendations which hold no value, but all of them have worked flawlessly for me over the past six months. I find the Mullvad Browser to be faster than the riced out arkenfox that I sometimes run.

FF based:
Mullvad Browser (Desktop)
Mull from DivestOS (Mobile)

Chromium based:
Ungoogled Chromium (Desktop)
Cromite (Mobile)

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

SneedBrowser (a project under the greater Kiwi Farms umbrella) when?

In all honesty, and not joking, if this Manifest v3 shit really manages to infect everything, I will likely just use the last version of Chromium that supports Manifest v2, inside a virtual machine, so I don't have to worry about it. Someone attacks the virtual machine, I don't have to give a shit. With a virtual machine, if someone breached the browser, it's like smashing a window to get in somewhere, and then finding a blank white room made out of brick, with no exit.

 

[LordOfZhbagva]

How long before I switch to Yandex?

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

How long before I switch to Yandex?

Unfortunately "Yandex" as we knew it, now lives in the Netherlands and is subject to even more gay EU law than the shit we have in the US. So, RIP Yandex.