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 …

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

    In other news:

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    I wonder if the web itself may bifurcate. Corporate, government, and most NGO websites will only respond to corporate browsers that run sanctioned DRM binary blobs to “verify” their “safety”. And then there is us, with our websites and our web clients.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

      It seemed a lot more reasonable 15 years ago. The default on Windows at the time of Chrome’s rise was Internet Explorer.

      I am watching Ladybird with great interest. The world needs a new-from-the-ground-up browser.

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Librewolf is fine for now, but it is small tweaks tracking FF’s codebase. I think that given Mozilla’s trajectory, at some point someone will have to do a hard fork.

        Someone could do a hard fork of Chromium now, for that matter, but I’m not aware of any so far.

  • N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
    15·
    2 months ago

    Google is not killing uBlock Origin, it is making its Chrome browser even less user friendly. Just use Firefox or a Firefox fork.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    The www has already gone to shit anyway thanks to SEO bullshit websites and AI generated garbage. Most of my online interactions are via applications these days. The more these companies ruin the www the less I find myself using a web browser.

  • terusgormand8465@lemmings.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Clickbait and misleading title, they’re putting in motion what they said they would do for years. That being the manifest v3 change to extensions, and the deprecation of manifest v2. They’re not killing uBlock origin, they’re changing the rules of what extensions can do and how they’re built.