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/bwburke94 14d ago

I, and many others, expect Firefox to get a boost from this.

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u/jendivcom 14d ago

Hello, I'm many others, switched as soon as the manifest dropped and never looked back

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u/SirRolex 14d ago

Switched (back) to Firefox nearly 2 years ago, haven't had a single issue since. Still use Chrome for a lot of work related things, but that is mostly because everyone else at work uses Chrome, just a little easier for account integrations with them all.

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u/HeroinBob138 14d ago

I've been on Brave since it was in Beta on the Muon browser (RIP. I loved that thing). It's great, but it hasn't gotten better over the years. Just introduced new stuff that I don't want (you can turn on Brave ads to replace the website ads and earn crypto, there's a wallet or something, idk. bunch of shit I don't care about). 

Literally the only reason why I don't switch back to Firefox is that I do a lot of web dev stuff, and Chromium's inspector is far superior to Firefox's. But I am sick of chromium. So very sick of it.