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

www.windowscentral.com 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.

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I remember how excited I was when google released a browser. They've become such a joke since then.
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I have a copy backed up, works fine when loaded manually
- Why wouldn't you just use something like Firefox? Why the actual fuck would you opt to continue using Chrome?
  
  They might simply prefer it, or be in an environment where they have no choice (e.g. office, education).
  
  I'm a stubborn Firefox user but I have to say, this feels a little aggressive and not at all likely to convince anyone to switch.
  
  Why would you use a browser like firefox when you could use brave which has built in ad blocks which firefox has not
  
  I stripped it from all google crap, extra features, etc. Then the features I want I added in using an extension I wrote and maintain myself
- Noice. I'm sure there's mirrors up already. Article says it'll eventually stop working tho. I know I have a few extensions that eventually were disabled daily and I had to enable them each time I started chrome
  
  This might be what makes he leave for Firefox full time. A bummer indeed
  
  Edit: ha, just saw what sub/community this is. I use FF but only for browsing... privately ;]
  
  Why not just use Firefox all the time? Literally zero reason to use Chrome except for the rare website that doesn't work with Firefox?
  
  Yea, I'll have to switch eventually. But let's hope the manifest v2 is not too difficult to put back in
Fuck google. Bring back infoseek
I’ll just say it.

People that continue to use chrome, and all of its little forks like Brave and Edge, are the reason why corpos are winning and making the internet worse off in the long run.

I’ve been using Firefox since I was a kid 20 FUCKING YEARS AGO. Not ONCE have I went to another browser for anything, and I look shit up constantly, pay my bills through Firefox, and everything between the two.

Stop making excuses, and just use ANYTHING other than fucking CHROME. I don’t care if it’s safari, ladybird, or fucking internet explorer. Just stop using a browser that is built by an ad company masquerading as a fucking tech company.

Jesus.
I like it when the garbage identifies itself openly. We don't need Chrome, but Chrome needs us.
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.

Is this a badly worded paragraph, but is uBlock Origin really using remotely hosted code? I thought it was a different restriction in manifest V3 that stops as blockers being effective.
- Is this a badly worded paragraph, but is uBlock Origin really using remotely hosted code? I thought it was a different restriction in manifest V3 that stops as blockers being effective.
  
  I think it kinda is badly worded, and it refers to code/data that is dynamically loaded by an extension, after it's installed by the user, which uBlock Origin does use for filter lists. They can't be bundled with the extension, because they get out of date really quickly and often need to get updated, so uBlock Origin just downloads a new blocklist and saves it in its cache. MV3 wants to prohibit this, making adblockers almost useless. Updating the extension every time there is an update to one of uBlock's many blocklists just isn't feasible. I think they can also hold back updates to the extension in the Chrome Web Store, which they might to if a blocklist starts to include something Google doesn't like (e.g. YouTube ads). All of this is just a shitshow and people should switch to better browsers with actual API compatibility for purposes like adblocking. The best examples are Firefox and LibreWolf.
- I think Google might just be calling block lists "externally hosted code". As I understand it, there are several restrictions: the severe limitation on the number of rules, the requirement to bundle rules with the addon (and the associated delay due to extension store review), and the loss of many advanced rule types that change blocking behavior based on different factors in order to avoid detection and otherwise be effective.
  
  The ublock FAQ has some interesting details too: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)#filtering-capabilities-which-cant-be-ported-to-mv3
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