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Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by krackers »

dossy wrote: post #4

There's still a way to load it under Chrome 138, but when Chrome 139 lands, that's when MV2 will finally be removed. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate... > Just as before, Enterprises using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will continue to be exempt from any browser changes until at least June 2025. Starting in June, the branch for Chrome 139 will begin, in which support for Manif…

In current chromium source, it seems still possible to force manifest v2 extensions with `kAllowLegacyMV2Extensions` feature flag?

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...

This however is a good time to export any extension preferences, because once it's removed you won't be able to access them.

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by tombert »

ews wrote: post #14

Moved to firefox and I am glad I did, I want to use a browser that respects my privacy choices

I left Firefox a few months ago because there was a bug in their shader cache, so a lot of stuff was laggy. I was willing to put up with until I got a 360 camera and videos were playing at like 2 fps. This was about six months ago, it’s possible that it’s been fixed, I haven’t checked.

I am using Brave right now, which seems fine. I have no idea if it actually respects privacy but they at least claim it does.

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by jksflkjl3jk3 »

mattl wrote: post #3

Firefox is still there, but Mozilla is adding AI slop to it too. I’d love to see an extension to disable all that stuff, or ideally get rid of it and make it an extension

Just use LibreWolf on desktop and IronFox on Android.

They basically strip out all the anti-privacy, anti-user "features" from Firefox.

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by ziofill »

compootr wrote: post #10
mattl wrote: post #3

Firefox is still there, but Mozilla is adding AI slop to it too. I’d love to see an extension to disable all that stuff, or ideally get rid of it and make it an extension

Zen browser is pretty minimal in terms of bloat carried from FF https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303974

How come Zen looks a lot like Arc? https://arc.net/

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by Springtime »

Among the neater features of the full-featured uBO is its ability to load userscripts from external sources.

While there's much talk about uBlock Origin with Mv2 other losses include the last remaining Javascript managers for Chromium like ScriptSafe that have no Mv3 counterpart.

Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

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Post by nar001 »

tombert wrote: post #15
ews wrote: post #14

Moved to firefox and I am glad I did, I want to use a browser that respects my privacy choices

I left Firefox a few months ago because there was a bug in their shader cache, so a lot of stuff was laggy. I was willing to put up with until I got a 360 camera and videos were playing at like 2 fps. This was about six months ago, it’s possible that it’s been fixed, I haven’t checked. I am using Brave right now, which seems fine. I have no idea if it actually respects privacy but they at least claim it does.

That doesn't solve the issue of ManifestV2 being removed though, Brave will have it removed at the same time as Chrome, when it's pulled from the code base
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