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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
submitted 12 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

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[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 28 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Man, I panicked at first because I have to use Edge at work. But this article clickbaited me, as uBlock origin lite is good enough for most people.

Still, screw Chrome, Edge, and Opera for being such dicks. It's always those three being the bottom tier browsers...

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Can confirm, using Cromite + uBlock Origin Lite + I Still Don't Care About Cookies.

They'll have to pry the OG uBlock extension from my Ungoogled Chromium browser's cold dead hands.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 4 hours ago

Ah, well that still work?

I use ungoogled chromium... but I assumed ublock would stop working like all the others.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I think the other browser in your list have little choice, since they use the chrome rendering engine. Only Firefox still has it's own engine.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 6 hours ago

If you are on iPhone, you can use Kagi's Orion - it is based on Webkit, which is what Safari uses. I have uBlock Origin installed on that browser.

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

If you rely on the extensions API you have no choice. If those browsers want they can just add ad blocking somehow, the code is open source. In fact Brave has its Shields applied directly in the source code without relying on the extensions API.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

*** laughs in Gecko Fusion ***