Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.
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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. ↩

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • astanix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    Turning off auto updates on chrome was convoluted. I assume everything will break when they force this update even with auto updates off.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
      15·
      1 month ago

      It’s probably going to prevent security updates too and that’s worse than ad tracking.

      • Nikls94@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 month ago

        looking at the 4“ woman poledancing in the bottom right corner of my windows vista screen

        Huh?