Google's Manifest V3 changes will soon disable uBlock Origin on Chrome

Firefox.

Just thought I'd get that one out of the way early.

oh no, anyway... -Firefox users

That, my friends, is why we kept fighting for firefox. It doesn't matter if you like or dislike Mozilla foundation, they have to exist because of shit like this

Thank goodness for Firefox. Google is really doing their best to make the Internet unusable.

Google justified this change by highlighting how extensions using the Web Request API could access and modify all the data in a network request, essentially being able to change everything that a user could do on the web (which is pretty scary and problematic when you think about it which is a perfectly valid usecase of a user-installed extension).

This is good new if you ask me: more people switching to firefox

Guess I just need to keep using firefox. shrug

Goddamnit I missed out again, faaaackkk! Why do i keep using Firefox ? Why?

Well what did you expect from an advertising company with a side hustle in web search.

This article is really wrong, wow. There is already a Manifest V3-compliant version of uBlock Origin, it's discussed in this thread: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338

I don't know if it's stated definitively anywhere, but I'm pretty sure the plan is to roll out that different version to Chrome users as an update to the existing extension. It's going to be slightly worse because MV3 is still missing some API features.

I could have sworn I saw something saying Google caved on this due to pressure.

People all this stress can be avoided if more channels upload videos on peertube. U block origin wouldnt even be needed as generally no ads are on peertube.

Enshitification continues.

Amazing how versioning can give an air of legitimacy through the illusion of progress.

I suppose this will affect chromium too?

They have been postponing it for a long time now. But uBlock origin has a light version they expect to work with V3. I wonder why they bother in the first place when they can just focus on Firefox

Didn't expect the day to come when I can no longer use Chromium based browsers.

Oh well, anyway.

That's why we need to switch away from this proprietary garbage and use Firefox or LibreWolf (Firefox on steroids with less bloat, improved privacy and even pre-installed uBlock Origin)

Not sponsored, I just genuinely like the product. Adguard doesn't require manifests because it works outside the browser.

On the other news I hope this bullshit is finally the straw that kills chrome.

I've disabled chrome on all my devices some time ago, so this is fine.

idk what people say but webextensions were a mistake.

Does this apply to all Chromium based browsers? I would like to switch to Firefox, but the touchscreen scroll there is terrible, and that is 90% of what I do in a browser.

Early Christmas present for FireFox, yay!

Google keeps improving chrome /s

What is this misleading ad nauseam crap? uBO Lite has existed for a good while since the codebase changes started to make rounds with Chrome 85 (or 87) version. It is a uBO without the manual matrix toggling and element picker, but has all the adblocker lists you can pick.

If you want to use the real deal that empowers the user, Chromium browsers are not an option. They are a second opinion browser. Boycott anyone, even those Bromite/Cromite/Vanadium evangelists for Android, who go around bullshitting how Firefox is "insecure".

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