You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how

Just ditch chrome. Done.

That is impossible for many people for the same reason why they still on Xitter, etc. They believe, that with enough willpower, the people ruining our software infrastructure can be convinced for the better. And also many people still believe that if you criticize their "meme browser" made by the cool "don't be evil" company, you're a Microsoft shill forcing them to use IE, that is buggy and slow.
- It blows my mind how many people use chrome over edge thinking that they are making super smart choice. I feel like I was still seeing memes on reddit making fun of Edge over Chrome.
- And also many people still believe that if you criticize their "meme browser" made by the cool "don't be evil" company, you're a Microsoft shill forcing them to use IE, that is buggy and slow
  Which I find absolutely hilarious, as Edgemium is a better browser than chrome. I still use Firefox first and foremost, but at work when I have to use something else, it performs better and has better features IMO.
I use Firefox when ads are overrunning my screen

you can do it by downloading this version of chrome

JUST FU***** CHANGE BROWSER ALREADY! Why you have to be so stupid to use Chrome?

According to the people I know, "It's better" because they won the browser speed race without looking at anything else.
You should see people hanging onto windows instead of switching to any other OS...

As they note in the article, this is a temporary measure, I.E. guaranteed to break soon.

Start switching to Firefox now so you're done when they finally turn it of. Ignore any other Chromium based browsers, it's unlikely they have the manpower to extend MV2 beyond what Google supports with their LTS releases.

Completely anecdotally, but I've noticed that in the last few months, ublock origin installs on the Mozilla addons site has gone up. So i think people are already moving.
Firefox on iOS doesn’t offer any ad blocking. Vivaldi (and several other) Chromium browsers do. So for a good chunk of the mobile community, Firefox is not the best option.
- Blame Apple for that, as for the longest time they only allowed using the Safari engine on iOS. Apparently that's still the case outside the EU now, meaning Mozilla would need to maintain two versions on iOS.
  On any other operating system, Firefox is by far the best at blocking ads with uBlock Origin.
- Apple limits mobile browsers a shit ton. When you get Firefox on iOS, you don't get Firefox, you get what's basically a safari front end. This is the reason you can install uBlock Origin or other extensions on the android version of Firefox, but be unable on the iOS version.
- Yep, I wish Firefox stepped up in this matter, since their competition can implement decent adblockers on iOS, while dealing with the exact same limitations Apple has set.
- On iOS the Orion browser lets you use Firefox or chrome mods.
- Or rather,... iOS isn't
- Just install AdGuard. Works great.
- Install uBO?

Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.

You can still block ads while shoving your data up Google's ass, here is how.

Don't use Chrome

you can enable ublock in chrome by downloading firefox from chrome, installing it, then installing ublock in firefox and finally removing chrome

Just fucking switch

Can't switch if you never left ;-)

People will do anything, but use Firefox

I don’t think that comma belongs there
- , Yeah I don't, think so either,.
- they were just making a statement and then also mentioning to use firefox
- In what world does google docs etc not work in firefox? They're webapps

Yeah all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages to enable Manifest 2, all in 8 easy steps (written as if it's 6 steps to make it seem less onerous). For now. Until Google switches it off completely.

Or, drop Chrome and Chromium based browsers (such as Edge, Vivaldi, Brave etc) in one easy step. Install a privacy respecting Firefox based browser like Firefox itself or Librewolf.

My thoughts exactly, just ditch chrome
all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages
I think this is a very important point that too few people are raising and it's getting buried under the spam of "switch to Firefox" messages. Yes, switching to Firefox is an option. But clearly some people don't want to do it, and we give them these workarounds without saying what they really do and without highlighting that they are potentially dangerous. You use your browser for a large part of your interaction with your computer, so any downgrade in security is going to be significant. To me, the short-term implications of this are far more important than the longstanding Chrome-vs-Firefox discussion.

just install firefox ffs.

Just use Firefox. Its people's fault that it got so bad because you basically gave them a browser monopoly

Using an adblocker on chrome is the funniest shit, that’s like using a condom to fuck a sheep.

Good job using a condom, but what the fuck are you doing fucking a sheep?

Or like, just switch already?

Just user Firefox lol

I'm struggling with the concept of people putting effort into using uBlock Origin with Chrome.

I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don't play nice with Firefox.
- I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don't play nice with Firefox.
  I bet those sites will play nice if you switch your user-agent to display as chrome.
- If they don't play nice then fuck em
- Then you use Chrome for sites that require it and Firefox for everything else.
- Just use edge, it’s chrome based. Or any other chrome based browsers that aren’t google chrome?
I'm honestly looking for an answer for my specific use case and unfortunately no other browser seems to be able to do this (I last looked into this in earnest near the beginning of the year). I am a consultant and work on multiple customers systems (web based system) all of which use a common single sign in provider. Unfortunately this means that in a single browser session, I can only be logged into one customer at one time. Yes, I know I can use multiple browsers but I sometimes touch 10 different systems in a day and need to switch between them easily and quicly. Yes, I know I can do this in Firefox but Firefox doesn't break each sandboxed session into it's own container with its own customized icon in the taskbar within windows.
With chrome I can create as many local profiles as I want, one for each of my customers and each with their own unique icons. Each profile has its own add-ons, caches etc. and I can quickly switch back and forth between them visually from the taskbar.
I do not want to continue having to using Chrome so if someone has a solution that gives me chrome profiles without the google, I would love that so much.
- Firefox has a new profiles experience in v138 and up. Each can have its own extensions and settings. If you've got more than one you can switch in the taskbar. The only thing you might be missing is using multiple profiles at once?
- Have you looked into Firefox Multi Account Containers? I use this extension to quickly switch between multiple tab groups, some of which do use SSO while using the same service (e.g. Outlook). Plus, you can easily create new tabs like Ctrl + Shift + (#1-9) to open a container of your choice among other shortcuts. I know it doesn't meet all your criteria, but each tab group has its own colour and/or icon to make them distinct, while being in the same window
I use Firefox on everything EXCEPT my Steam Deck. Firefox will not let you open the dropdown menu to exit, make videos fullscreen etc. And when a notification pops up, your firefox is now 100 by 30 pixels...
I wish they would fix it already...
I can use firefox in desktop mode but i don't like having to switch to desktop mode and wait for everything. Then switch back to play something.

"While users can still make uBlock Origin work, it will eventually stop working altogether, and no method will be able to mend it. Therefore, users will have to either switch to Manifest V3-based blockers, such as uBlock Lite, or move to browsers that still support Manifest V2. Firefox, Opera, and Brave, for example, do not plan to ditch those extensions just yet."

Just fucking switch already!

Is this actually easier than installing librewolf?

Nope. It also sounds like it will repeatedly break after updates.

Let it go bro. Just switch to Firefox & co. Or at least use it less for something that does not require ad-blocking.

Eh.

After years and years of Chrome I just up and switched on Friday when they finally pulled the plug.

No regrets. No waving from the stern of the ship as I sail away from Chromeland.

If they choose to take away a valuable tool I consider necessary for browsing the web, then I have no loyalty to them and can easily move on. Took all of 10 seconds to import my shit into Firefox and be on my way.

Bye, Chrome. Thanks for being useful, until you weren't.

My first web browser was Mosaic version 1. I ran version 2 alpha for a bit.

Netscape started doing things better so I moved over to it.

Over the years I've bounced around from Netscape, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and a few others (the MS browsers never really swayed me). It seemed like every year I'd be moving to a new platform or version. I usually have 3-4 browsers installed on my computers at any given time.

Once Chrome blocked uOrigin I moved over to Firefox. Easy.

The point is, to get the best (and safest) browsing experience, you have to be flexible. If you just use the thing that "came with the computer" you're going to have a bad time. If Chrome wants to break your browsing experience, ditch it.

For those that do need to use Chrome for whatever reason, don't bother with all this faff just use uBOL, it's just as good as uBO

God, this is like those people who still insist on running Windows 7

Tbf, win7 was the best os i ever used. Only to be royally fucked by win8, win10 and win11. Oh how it has fallen...
- Hmm, openSUSE Tumbleweed has been the best OS I've ever used, and it's still available. Windows 7 was marginally better than Vista because they fixed the broken stuff, but it still had all the problems of a Windows OS.
Those people are based Tbf, mfs are making their own drivers and everything.
*Windows XP.
- lol noooooooooooo
  Horrible from a security standpoint. A good step into the future, but honestly let it go.

Use librewolf or fennec (Firefox forks)

IronFox for LibreWolf fans on Android.
- I used ironfox too, just a lot of website functionality was broken using it. (At least for me and this was months ago). Settled on fennec.

You can, but you should just switch to Firefox or accept ads in Chromium Browsers.

I can imagine that in the long run it will get harder for their forks to block ads with any extension.

I can't wait for Ladybird in the future 💪.

There is no such option "accepting ads". I will do everything in my power to block any type of ad in every device i own, no matter the diffuculty.
- Oh definitely. I gave up ads about 20 years ago when I got rid of cable. Not a chance in hell I'm going back.

Why jump through all these hoops, and lessen the security of your browser in the process, just to do something that is being fully stripped out soon anyway?

Just install Firefox. It's not like you can't import your bookmarks and such.

True
Ublock origin also works better on Firefox

Chromium? More like copium. /j

Get use firefox.less intrusive

Show me "Not use Chrome"!

BZZZT

I would make a toxic relationship joke but this shit is just not funny.

Why bother? Chromium browsers suck.

I hate chrome with a passion and it really sucks that Firefox isn't as convenient for profiles, a feature I rely heavily on, although, I'm still switching. fuck ads and fuck data harvesting, I'd rather have a slightly less performant browser than be visually assaulted and have my performance tank.

I mean there is always floorp which has better profiles
- Haven't heard of that one before, it's pretty interesting from first impressions though. I'll try it out tomorrow and see how it goes. Thanks!

Can't wait till Kagi Browser releases their Linux version of a browser based on webkit, but it's prob at least another year or more frmo being released and Gnome Web is so featureless it's useless and can't even play YouTube videos half the time in 2025...

Check out LibreWolf. There’s no reason to wait.
- Librewolf is too hardened for my use case. By the time I tweak Librewolf to my liking, it's functionally Firefox, but with a different icon, lol. Just gonna ride out Firefox for the next year or two and them jump off this ship.

Lots of comments in here saying to just use Firefox, and they're entirely correct, but the one use case for articles like this I could think of is where you are forced to use Chrome at work but can still install extensions.

Ubo lite seems to work just fine for my needs, which is blocking yt ads. Everything else vivaldi or adguard catches

Aaand, why bother?

People are weird. Just use Linux! /s

No /s

The UBlock Origin Lite app (currently in Testflight beta but seems to be full, but hopefully coming to the app store soon) works great with iOS Safari. I use that on iOS and Firefox on the desktop, which turns out to be a great combo if you have password and bookmark management separate.

Firefox Focus is also great as the default browser on the phone to avoid links opening from Meta or Google in Safari.

Running the «Always in Container» extension in Firefox gives the same effect on desktop and avoids opening a link in the wrong container. Highly recommended: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/always-in-container/

Is the uBlock Origin Lite TestFlight app only for Safari or is it system wide?
I'd love to benefit from it while using Firefox on iOS.
- Installs as a Safari Extension, so I believe it is only for Safari and not for the «webkit core» itself that all browsers on iOS use.
  Another option is the Orion browser from Kagi that supports desktop extensions like Ublock Origin.

Ubo has a video in the reddit sub on how to do it.

I hate that the source article title has a comma splice, and rules say we have to perpetuate that.

uBlock Origin Lite seems to work fine for me.

If you have to use a Chromium browser. Just use Brave. It haves a built in ad blocker.

You mean the browser that was caught injecting affiliate codes on cryptocurrency sites and misleading users into making donations that were collected by brave instead of the supposed recipient? That browser?
- They fixed it, https://brave.com/blog/rewards-update.