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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)

submitted 2 months 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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[–] drath@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (17 children)

People keep mentioning Firefox but fail to realize that Google, as the sole sponsor of Mozilla Corporation (not to be confused with Mozilla Foundation), can just kindly ask for Firefox to follow suit and gimp itself, just like it did before with a move to webextensions. Gotta admit it, Google has won the web, what they say (eventually) goes.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 24 points 2 months ago (9 children)

people still use chrome?, with all thier bs with adblocking and incognito like almost 7 years ago.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

High time to leave that ship if you have not done that already.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So LibreWolf browser it is?

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just about any firefox derivative will do now.

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Lynx gang, assemble

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[–] lumettaria@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago

Excellent reason for even the normies to ditch chrome 🥂

[–] thedormantotaku@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Firefox+uBO works fine. Brave shields works fine.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ludites unite, might be time to go back to the old ways.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Fine. I propose we create a proxy for hostile web browsers. Install the proxy on your device to run locally. Browser tells proxy to fetch the page. Proxy unfucks it before handing it over to the browser. Someone likely already has something like this out there somewhere.

If they want to turn this into an arms race they absolutely will lose.

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[–] luke@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Zen has been pretty great so far

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