This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
First, screw Chrome.
BUT. These headlines are clickbait.
UBO has been disabled in Chrome for a long, long time. This is nothing new. Its old news.
Ublock Lite replaced it, and it’s not going away. It’s inferior and problematic and harder on devs, yes, but unfortunately Chrome users didn’t seem notice.
What’s being disabled is a crazy-difficult-to-enable flag that basically zero Chrome users actually used, and that only (a few) downstream Chromium forks use.
Sorry, I didn't use Chrome, which flag?
You have to launch Chrome with this command-line argument:
--disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled
And then, I think you have to re-enable it with config flags as well:
chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-warning [Disabled]
chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-disabled [Disabled]
chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-unsupported [Disabled]
chrome://flags/#allow-legacy-mv2-extensions [Enabled]
I have not tried this personally, though.
I think the idea is to stop people from browsing and make them rely on ai
That's the only reason, I use it. And I knew Firefox would be the only one remaining when I switched to it the very moment, Chromium stopped supporting uBlock Origin.