Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads - eviltoast
Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
  • 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.
  • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
    1110·
    3 months ago

    Yea, I’m just waiting for the bomb to go off when Mozilla inevitably ends up following Google’s example.

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      202·
      3 months ago

      Thankfully, Firefox is open-source, so we can just use one of the forks, or perhaps Ladybird will be ready for general release by that time.

    • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Firefox already adopted manifest V3 but specifically kept the features needed for adblockers