Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled and tells users to switch to other ad blockers before deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

http://www.techmeme.com/240803/p11#a240803p11

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled and tells users to switch to other ad blockers before deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions  —  Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

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x4740N@lemm.ee · 31 pts · 2y

Laughs in firefox

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Mango@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'm sorry baby. Chrome was young and pretty and I didn't know better!

DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

She wasn't even that pretty now that we look back.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Firefox + Chrome Mask + Unlock, never going back. Only extra work I do is report some sites, though apple business manager still tweaks out without chrome mask on.

Barbarian@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's an unfortunate situation. The tightening of restrictions around direct access to the URLs a page is accessing definitely improves security (think about how many random malware add-ons tech illiterate people install), but also makes filter lists much more difficult to implement.

Ublock Origin Lite is fully V3 compliant. They work around the issue by having a "basic" filter mode that hands off their list to the browser and trusts Chrome itself to do the filtering, rather than the add-on. You can also give it full permissions on a site by site basis, which will then work almost exactly like Ublock Origin.

axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y

Sadly the element blocker is one piece that was stripped away due to the limitations of the new V3 requirements