We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the …

  • Southern WolfA
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    1 month ago

    No Chromium browser is safe

    That’s definitely not entirely true. Brave and Vivaldi are both keeping support for MV2. At least Brave is, I know that. Aside from the Brave Shields, you can also now enable uBlock through a menu in the settings for MV2 extensions, alomg with some others too.

    I also think Vivaldi has their own ad blocker? Don’t quote me on that though, I’m not really a Vivaldi user.