Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

I'm warning Google that Google Chrome may soon be disabled on my devices.

Firefox my beloved.

meanwhile firefox lists it as recommended and also lets you use it on firefox mobile.

Google needs to be broken up by government.

Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

Google isn't just disabling an extension, they're attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.

IT guys will stop using it...

Which means they'll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won't ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward.

Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS.

Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol.

I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run.

You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.

Thank you Google I hope shitty moves like this drives enough people away to better browsers like Firefox. It desperately needs a bigger market share.

So, what they're saying is: Chrome will have severely decreased functionality and users will no longer be able to protect themselves from sketchy ads that contain scams, malware, and other nefarious bullshit (often hosted on Google's own ad networks)?

Sadly I'm far more attached to ad blocking than I am to a browser.

That’s a funny way to say “you should uninstall chrome rather than leaving it unused” but I hear you Google. 🫡

Yeah, we saw this coming. When Manifest v3 first talked about.

Google an ad company are killing ad blockers. Yeah, that sounds right.

The modern Internet is completely unusable without an ad blocker. Way to remake ie6, Google!

...Oh, no! Anyway. Just giving people one more reason to finally make the switch to Firefox or something different.

Google Chrome warns about disabling uBlock Origin. I warn Google Chrome that they're being a little bitch & they're going to lose users.

Sounds like another reason not to use Chrome.

Could turn out to be a good thing. All power users will dump Chrome practically overnight, a huge boon to the alternatives, that could actually give them enough momentum to compete with Google for a change. I'm sure they've considered this, probably an empty treat.

Thanks for reaffirming why I refuse to use Chrome.

I'm using Firefox or forks.

Oh no uses Firefox Anyway....

Good riddance then. Fuck chrome

They started putting ads in Windows, a few users switched, but most still continue Windows.

Google will roll this out and a few users will switch, but most will just keep using Chrome.

We've already established that most users don't seem to care.

I rlly hate how some sites don't work on Firefox

I guess it's a good thing I'm on Firefox now instead of Chrome.

Glad I have firefox as well but also looking forward to a cool new project called Ladybird. https://ladybird.org

Not sure if its the right one but glad there are more projects out there trying to jump into the game. (I know extensions are a long way off for it but i see it as hope.)

Also please consider running pihole or adguard home. Or any other full home DNS add blocker. It will help.

Google Chrome is about to be disabled? Got it.

Google needs to be ended.

🖕

Google sneezes and your future is stolen by an ad that's selling it back to you. Google is too big to exist.

Let this be my warning to Google that I will never go back to their browser when they do. Challas! ✌️

I honestly can't wait to see how this plays out. Only Chrome, chromium and edge in their pure forms have dedicated to doing this. Most of the Chrome forks have said they're going to fork and keep it running. It's certainly going to give Firefox a shot in the arm, but there's no lack of other competition either.

What I'm scared is publishers taking this as a reason to simply start banning Firefox and other browsers.

Glad I've finally migrated to firefox...

Permanently Deleted

There it is. Firefox and Librewolf will guide us out of this mess.

I use Firefox but when I watch twitch or wherever, I need Google chrome's live caption to see what streamers say.

Firefox please get this feature asap. So I can delete Google chrome for good.

Please just us in using Firefox.

If you use anything Google, you are the product. This has been pretty obvious since the early 2000's, yet people dive right into all the crap they release.

Firefox ftw.

I've actually been using Waterfox lately though because for some reason there's a video codec issue on Firefox that makes YouTube videos not play correctly.

Chrome who?

Laughs in Librewolf

Gee, what a shame. Good think I switched to FireFox. Hey, does anyone know how to make chat work on FireFox?

Then it's goodbye Chrome.

Proprietary software sucks, use an open source browser like Librewolf.

"This destroys the Chrome"

I use chromium for one thing, and it's casting live sports to my Chromecast. My plans to implement a HTPC have just been expedited.

I know everyone is doing the "use Firefox" thing, but please remember that Acer alone sold almost a million Chromebooks globally in 2023.

Sure, many of those people probably weren't going to use it anyway, but plenty were. I installed it on my daughter's Chromebook that she was forced to use for school.

I cannot really be happy about being on Librewolf, because I am very afraid Firefox might eventually ditch MV2 as well. Mozilla is dependent on Google and is known for questionable choices, so...

Will a pihole fill this void?

Google Chrome warns of a drop of users. There, I corrected the title.

Google copying mrkrabs lol

For other Chromium browsers or those who don't see this yet, enable chrome://flags#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-warning.

Never a better a time to join Mozilla Gang.

-Message brought to you by Mozilla Gang

Very firefox, very legal very cool.

Good thing I ditched Chrome the moment I heard about their plans.

Thank goodness there is more than one browser available.

Cool, just let me know. My girlfriend uses chrome. I'm happy to set her up with Firefox whenever y'all want to jump the shark.

what's a google chrome

Good thing I stopped using Chrome

And a hearty Rest In Piss to Chrome as well

I only use chrome for things that require my Google account.

Now what would be impressive is if they ban uBlock origin from working on firefox mobile. That would be a whole new kind of sinister

Safari is ok too…

Their new UI made the browser unusable anyway. Looks like a child toy to me.

I don't really love Firefox's default UI but I can customize it with about:config and userChrome.css to fit my taste.

I'll just side load it. Fuck you Google

Lol like anyone smart still used Google.

The one and only thing keeping me on Chrome... well, Ungoogled Chromium... is the webassembly performance which is just abysmal in comparison on Firefox, sadly.

Could a grease monkey script do something similar? I'm probably just talking out of my butt, but it seems like GM can sometimes do things easier or better (or just at all) that extensions can't or won't do.

I'm not worried about this at all. I don't use Chrome anyways. I use Brave. It has a built-in ad blocker that works pretty well and I don't see that going away.

Daily plug for Cromite: https://github.com/uazo/cromite

Chrome, but it doesn't suck, doesn't track you, and it has good, fast native adblock.

Also in some linux repos now. I know its in CachyOS. And it's on Android, too.

Bring back Internet Explorer.

How could they even allow this? Isn’t ublock an independent plugin?

Also, how about other chromium browsers?

EDIT: click bait headline, chrome is just deprecating a dependency it uses and ublock isn’t using the new version yet.

Edit 2: I didn’t realize v3 was nurfed intentionally,

Fuck google