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

Zen has been pretty great so far

[–] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 months ago

Good bye to Chrome it is then. I made the switch as soon as they started messing

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

it's like people don't remember what surfing the web was like before ad-blockers. If adblockers go away for real, ~~people~~ nerds will revolt

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (9 children)

What's to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?

Cromite's only flaw (IMO) is that it based it's built in adblocker on AdBlock instead of Ublock.

I've tried moving to Firefox and I don't know, it just feels ugh to me. (scientific critique, I know...). It's just something I can't put my finger on; Firefox just doesn't feel performative. whether that's a frame-buffer animation thing, or icon shadows, or something else entirely, it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What’s to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?

It's a lot of work, mostly. And how many of those V2 extensions are going to continue to provide patches anyway.

it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.

Maybe it's the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Visibility.

See: Helium Browser. Which is already doing this, and shipping full UBO, yet most aren’t aware of it.

Also see: this comment is minimized by default, and most of Lemmy will never know the answer to OP's question already exists. There are probably other forks that do this, too.

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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ungoogled Chromium and Librewolf really suits my needs, i dont even think about those issues ever since i started using them.

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