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Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

#11
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The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

This is just kicking the can down the road.

The bigger question is how the Chromium forks are going to respond long-term. I suspect the APIs enabling ad blocking are only going to get more clamped down requiring additional work for forks.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

#12
post #9

The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.

If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible.

Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.

If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?

What's so horrible about it? I don't like how they're pampering to the ad industry now but other than that I think they're pretty decent.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

#14
post #9

The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.

Firefox on ChromeOS sucks though. Just went through this, tried Canary, etc. Went back to Chrome.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

#17
post #9

The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

and its really easy on MacOS, you just have to run

  defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2
Another case where windows makes simple things unnecessarily cumbersome

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

#18
post #11
post #9

The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

This is just kicking the can down the road. The bigger question is how the Chromium forks are going to respond long-term. I suspect the APIs enabling ad blocking are only going to get more clamped down requiring additional work for forks.

Policy-installed extensions can continue to use the WebRequest blocking APIs on Manifest V3 [1], so I would expect that the underlying code for the API would remain available for forks to use.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/w...

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

#19
post #4

Friends don't let friends use Chrome. Use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best with Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Unfortunately Firefox is slower than chromium and the devtools are worse. I used Firefox for years because I hate google. I eventually gave up, that’s how bad ff is.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.

If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?

Mozilla can't be worse than google (or brave/opera etc)
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