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Users online are reporting on Reddit and X that Chrome is removing outdated extensions.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

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

I don't know about reading, but posting is next to impossible due to weird filters. Things used to be so simple...

 

[the khat quaffer]

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

>apple user
>complaining about a pain in the ass

 

[Cole009]

I don't know about reading, but posting is next to impossible due to weird filters. Things used to be so simple...

Is it really that bad? Last time I passed by posting was still simple, save for the annoying captcha. Oh well, I probably must be familiar with somethin else.

 

[innocent jogger]

Smart minds, I'm at about 8TB currently, slowly building it up with old movies and tv shows mostly but my goal is that, get ready for a point where I can just walk away from the coming shit-show and have a local library I can enjoy unplugged from everything.

Make sure your media hoards have back ups of back ups. Drives can fail.

Yep. Call me a total sperg but I try to do a 3-cycle backup of my externals every six months or so. That is, I keep 3 sets of the same size and copy the current to the oldest, that way I have two to fall back on if something fails.

If I just collected available slop I probably wouldn't be so autistic but the majority of my archives are hard to find shit, fan edits and my own personal rips/transcodes.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

improve privacy and security

but also removes a feature that some ad blocking extensions relied on to work

I wonder if Google, the company that became one of the most powerful corporate empires in the world entirely through the business of mass data collection and ad targeting, could have some kind of ulterior motive in crippling ad blocker software. oh well, at least my Google-made browser will be more Private and Secure.

Mozilla is gay and retarded and they've fucked up continuously but I'll still keep using Firefox

Firefox forks remain the least cucked way to browse the internet.

>Hammond, you blithering idiot
Null, I'm not sure if anyone told you this, but LibreWolf has declared itself as "openly woke" .

cool. I'll care when LibreWolf stops being a good browser.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Every time a person makes a search on Google a child is raped in Pakistan.

If it's a paki child, why would I care?

 

[Organized Derailment]

chrome on macos + ublock origin lite and I havent seen a single ad yet.

 

[Taser Confetti]

Glad I found Librewolf some time ago

 

[Black Yoshi]

This is why having every fucking browser based on Chromium is a very bad idea. Even Microsoft and Brave are unable or unwilling to even fork it and still have Manifest V2, instead just happy to cosume the garbage from upstream chromium.

Firefox and Safari are the only outliers now...

Ublock is impossible to make work on Safari and AdBlock just abruptly stopped working on it a few years back.

 

[Debbie Macomber]

It's coming soon, fellas.

The next step is to make you bow

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Corporations

This was at a public library though. It's still sorta stupid to not allow adblockers.

It's coming soon, fellas.

If I had a TV broadcast pull that crap, I'd most likely have some choice words to say that are not "McDonald's", followed by me then immediately turning that broadcast off.

 

[cryptidfuck]

Ladybird sounds pretty ripe for Googletroon infestation

 

[cryptidfuck]

installing the lion with crypto.

And the crypto "payouts" don't even work, the ads still bloat your phone notifications but the payouts are through Uphold, an extremely scummy company that scams you out of proper crypto awards. It'll take a cut from you even if you're buying a "certain" amount.

Long story short, don't opt-in to Brave Rewards.
You get none.

 

[SCV]

Block at layer 3 -- an example of doing this on a Mikrotik router is here, complete with an up-to-date blacklist. Just stop your entire network from even talking to the offending IPs. DoH all you want, you're not gonna actually talk to those IPs, rude browser!

I actually do block the big DoH providers (cloudflare, quad9, etc.) but I assume all the browsers are going to get their own DoH servers. The link is kinda interesting but I'm not using a Mikrotik router. Also idk why I would want to block all the IPs the greece blocks since iirc they require DNS blocking for pirate sites.

If anyone knows of a blocklist specifically for DoH providers I would be very interested.

 

[Wall of Bricks]

At this point, Firefox is my way to go and even has a useful utility for migrating data such as bookmarks, history, etc. which made switching browsers easy.

UBlock Origin (can't recommend it enough, it even works on Youtube which has become extremely aggressive with anti-Adblocking) has a cool feature that tells you how many ads it has successfully cockblocked. Prior to switching to Firefox, it has blocked over 10 million ads since I installed it on Chrome. Cumulatively, with the almost 450k ads blocked on Firefox, that's about close to 10.5 million ads that it has blocked.

SponsorBlock is another extension that'll make your browsing experience better as well. Set it to auto-skip and any annoying sponsor segments in videos are skipped. You can also flag segments of a video and they'll add it to their database if a video you watch hasn't been added yet.

On Android, Adguard makes an Adblocking app which works well with Chrome on there, even on youtube when you watch through the browser.

Chrome:

Firefox:

 

[moocow]

I actually do block the big DoH providers (cloudflare, quad9, etc.) but I assume all the browsers are going to get their own DoH servers. The link is kinda interesting but I'm not using a Mikrotik router. Also idk why I would want to block all the IPs the greece blocks since iirc they require DNS blocking for pirate sites.

If anyone knows of a blocklist specifically for DoH providers I would be very interested.

I live to serve, sir (or madam as the case may be)! Check this out. The name cracks me up too. I know what the acronym stands for but it's kinda awesome it looks like "D'oh!".

Edit: Oh, you can ignore the Mikrotik bits if you don't need them (on both projects). The blacklists are what's important; Mikrotiks understand the standard format so the other stuff is just config wrappers to wire it up on RouterOS. The blacklists included in the projects are in a standard format.

 

[JakeMorgendorffer]

I live to serve, sir (or madam as the case may be)! Check this out. The name cracks me up too. I know what the acronym stands for but it's kinda awesome it looks like "D'oh!".

Edit: Oh, you can ignore the Mikrotik bits if you don't need them (on both projects). The blacklists are what's important; Mikrotiks understand the standard format so the other stuff is just config wrappers to wire it up on RouterOS. The blacklists included in the projects are in a standard format.

Probably wrong, but wouldn't blocking DoH to have effective DNS-based adblocking also end up reducing end-user privacy/security, since DNS requests would no longer be encrypted? While not very likely to be an attack vector for your average joe, seems antithetical to private/secure browsing.

 

[Null]

Null, I'm not sure if anyone told you this, but LibreWolf has declared itself as "openly woke" .

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.

 

[Smegward]

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

you can barely write on it due to the timer.

 

[SCV]

So consider me retarded in this kind of stuff, but wouldn't blocking DoH to have effective DNS-based adblocking also end up reducing end-user privacy, since DNS requests would no longer be encrypted?

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.

I live to serve, sir (or madam as the case may be)! Check this out. The name cracks me up too. I know what the acronym stands for but it's kinda awesome it looks like "D'oh!".

Edit: Oh, you can ignore the Mikrotik bits if you don't need them (on both projects). The blacklists are what's important; Mikrotiks understand the standard format so the other stuff is just config wrappers to wire it up on RouterOS. The blacklists included in the projects are in a standard format.

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