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.
  • CafecitoHippo@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    Now they will be forced to look at ads.

    I’m pretty sure they would’ve been seeing ads anyways. I doubt that school IT administrators had uBlock Origins as an extension that was being installed and I really doubt they didn’t have the chromebooks locked down so students could install whatever extensions they wanted.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      Good, smart IT would have installed ublock and locked that shit down. Saves bandwidth and protects the kids.

      But you’re probably right, most IT departments are useless.

      • Kogasa@programming.dev
        11·
        3 months ago

        Don’t think it saves bandwidth unless it’s a DNS level block, which IT should also do but separately from uBO