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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by phire »

LelouBil wrote: post #11
Balinares wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In case your assumption here is that TFA is about Edge disabling adblockers: it's not. It's just removing ManifestV2 support. ManifestV3 is still supported. Despite what one might assume, MV3 does not seem to measurably diminish the effectiveness of adblockers; if anything, it improves it. (Source: https://petsymposium.org/popets/2026/popets-2026-0027.php )

Isn't the main issue that for MV3 you can't have a dynamic blocklist ? And so you have to update it with an extension update ?

There is a dynamic API too that allows extensions to modify the blocklist at runtime.

I’ve been using UBlock Origin Lite on my iPhone for a while, and that works great, keeping itself updated from EasyList and allowing for custom rules.

In some ways it’s better, in some ways it’s worse. Sometimes you have to flip it into “complete mode” (and give it full access to modify the current site) to get good blocking.

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by antonymoose »

feverzsj wrote: post #12
olivermuty wrote: post #8

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Brave as well?

Brave's adblock isn't as powerful as ublock.

In what sense? As a normie-tier user of Brave’s internal and blocker, it’s worked great. I never became a power-user of uBlock.

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

massysett wrote: post #20
WhyIsItAlwaysHN wrote: post #19

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So no youtube?

YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit.

'Rainbow Dome Musick', by Steve Hillagr..glorious soothing music, then 30 mins in, a Barilla pasta advert. Sorry, youtube - I tried.

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by NeutralWanted »

WhyIsItAlwaysHN wrote: post #19
massysett wrote: post #14

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I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it.

So no youtube?

YouTube premium is one of the best subs you can buy if you watch a lot of YouTube. Plus you get Music.

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by eddythompson80 »

olivermuty wrote: post #8
feverzsj wrote: post #6

Basically every chromium based browser.

Brave as well?

Brave said they’ll keep some select MV2 extensions, though that remains to be seen. Especially if it causes too much maintenance headache with upstream chromium. Also it seems that Brave now distributes these select MV2 extensions. So I’m not sure if they have forked them, or if they just repackage upstream.

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by tornikeo »

massysett wrote: post #20
WhyIsItAlwaysHN wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So no youtube?

YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit.

Humans are just so damn different in their tolerance to wasting time. I can't take feeling like I wasted 10 seconds of my time on an ad even when watching an video for recreation.

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Post by Krssst »

NeutralWanted wrote: post #24
WhyIsItAlwaysHN wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So no youtube?

YouTube premium is one of the best subs you can buy if you watch a lot of YouTube. Plus you get Music.

YT Music would be be better if I did not have to double check every of its suggestion for AI generation. Some accounts to make their AI use public which is nice but there's no way to see their channel info in YT Music to look for that.

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Post by cmeacham98 »

NeutralWanted wrote: post #28

Running Unbound on my gateway with a curated adblock list. Easy setup, network-wide ad blocking on every device / browser.

Some ads (e.g. I know YT ads used to be this way, haven't looked recently) can't be blocked at the network level because they are served from the same domain/servers as the content.

Re: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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Post by s0ss »

Advertising companies shouldn’t be in the browser business. It’s a really bad conflict of interest. Chromium is a mistake.

Firefox is pretty great. But IMO they have some poor ux defaults that make it unappealing to random people who simply want a browser.

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