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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by garciasn »

ge96 wrote: post #22

Is it actually gone? I thought they just put that warning. I just re-enabled the one already installed on my devices. Once it's legit gone gone though yeah I'm going to Firefox or use Edge for web dev stuff Edit: I will say I am a hypocrite though I am trying to build a following by posting on YouTube... I don't control the ads on there, maybe you do when you are monetizable but yeah sucks I feel bad for the viewers.…

I re-enabled it last week but they forced removed it again days later. I re-enabled it by force and it's still working, but it won't be for much longer, I'm certain.

https://www.neowin.net/guides/google-turned-off-ublock-in-ch...

This URL, shared elsewhere in this thread, seems to tell you how to get it back up and running if you cannot do it easily; that said, I'll be moving to FF if they continue their shenanigans.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by theteapot »

dgacmu wrote: post #39

I've been running firefox on my laptop for the last year, with Chrome on my desktop, as a way to head-to-head them. For folks contemplating the switch, it hasn't been bad at all. Some better, some worse, but overall I rarely notice major differences except for a very small handful of sites that won't work with FF. And I still have all of my uBlock origin happiness. :)

What sites don't work with FF?

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by Dylan16807 »

AJRF wrote: post #58

I am coming from a place of ignorance, but could uBlock have worked on Manifest v3? It seems like it would have worked, but the danger was over time Google report less and less information to the extension, but as it is today, the extension would have worked the same on v3 as v2? As I say - I am ignorant sorry, its hard to search for an answer to this specific question Edit: Sorry the answer is here: https://github.c…

The ability to run code to decide if a request should be blocked was removed in v3.

If it could work in v3 it would have been updated. There are some alternate v3 versions that don't work as well.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by theteapot »

inertiatic wrote: post #57
phito wrote: post #51

I hear so many people IRL complaining about this. I tell them to switch to firefox, that the adblockers still work there, and they still won't switch to it because they are "used to chrome". I really feel like google won this battle. People will through a lot of abuse just to maintain their habits.

I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.

What? Why? That's me, I use FF.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by whalesalad »

bearjaws wrote: post #4

Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy, a joke coming from Google. Then the excuse was "well it improves performance", which they could easily do by marking extensions as low performance. If Google wanted to improve this they have an entire search engine where they could re-ran…

100% agree with you. Unfortunately Chrome is damn near a requirement if you are interacting with the Google Cloud console. Try to use BigQuery studio in any other browser and you are in for a world of hurt.

Have we seen this movie before?

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by tombert »

MYEUHD wrote: post #66
bdcravens wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of what the DOJ is seeking against Google would severely impact Mozilla financially however, as they want to ban them from paying to be the default search engine.

That would be a good thing. If Firefox is funded by donations, rather than by Google, it ensures there is no enshittification in the future. And yes, donations can fund a big project, as evidenced by Thunderbird and Ladybird.

I mostly agree, but I am slightly worried that it would lead to slower progress in Firefox. As it stands, Google's funding of Firefox is enough to hire a bunch of engineers to make Firefox a pretty competitive browser.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by p_ing »

stevetron wrote: post #33

The source code is available for Chrome. Suppose one downloads the source code, and then re-enables the Manifest v2? A bit of work, particularly when you have to do other things that probably allow it to co-exist with Manifest v3, and Manifest v4 when it comes. And prevent updates from taking it all out again. While working on it, flip the compiler's command-line switch that allows the executable to run on Windows 7.…

Keeping MV2 going is a massive and unrealistic effort for a small dev group while continuing to incorporate upstream changes. You cannot leave a browser without those upstream changes as they include security patches.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by whstl »

colordrops wrote: post #15
whitepoplar wrote: post #3

uBlock Origin Lite is still available, thankfully.

What is lost by going to this version?

If it’s anything like Safari’s declarative blocklists:

Ad blocking on Youtube.

Youtube-blocking Safari extensions “solve” Youtube blocking by using non-declarative APIs that need full access to Youtube. Apple seems ok with that so far, but the APIs are not as goods, so their success rate is limited.

Whether Google will allow new extensions that block Youtube remains to be seen.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by edoceo »

recursive wrote: post #34
ToDougie wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox has some weird slowness with DNS that I have troubleshot to death. I still use it for almost everything, but sometimes I'll have an entire day of 30s page loading times.

Apologies if this is elementary, but have you tried turning off DoH? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https#w_off

I put this setting in ages ago on my FF profile and haven't seen DNS lag.

My biggest DNS lag was before I used PiHole and was relying on my router, which upstream to 8.8.8.8. I've just assumed that little thing was overloaded or that Comcast was just having a "hiccup".

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