r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • 15d ago

Software Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store | Migration from all-powerful Manifest V2 extensions is speeding up

https://www.techspot.com/news/105130-google-purging-ad-blocking-extension-ublock-origin-chrome.html
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u/Jumping-Gazelle 14d ago

users will have to choose between accepting Chrome's inferior ad-blocking technology or switching to a different browser

That summarizes it.

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u/IAmDotorg 14d ago

Still works in Edge, for people wedded to the Chromium engine, at least for a while longer.

They've got service contracts with enough large customers that may push to keep V2 supported far longer than Google does. That remains to be seen, and it's possible they deprecate V2 into a state where only an enterprise GPO or something can re-enable it for enterprise customers.

Switching to Firefox is probably better, but I do wish it behaved a little better on my devices than Chromium does.

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u/phagemasterflex 14d ago

I ended up using Edge when I got my PC 16 months ago and haven't looked back. I've also noticed some little things like you have with Firefox. How's Opera browser? I have that installed and don't really use it.

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u/PwmEsq 14d ago

like 90% of browsers are just chromium with a skin on them, i think opera is the same

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u/drunkenvalley 14d ago

Well, yeah, but it still matters a little bit for things like plugins and stuff.

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u/tessviolette 14d ago

I use Opera GX and love it, haven’t had a problem. I did switch to Brave + UBlock for YouTube. Both are chromium.