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Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers (www.pcworld.com)
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uBlock Origin will soon stop functioning in Chrome as Google transitions to new browser extension rules.

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[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Its still the same extension, same source code, same logic, just less capable

the same… but not the same… ??

I think the technologies are quite different.

uBOL is entirely declarative, meaning there is no need for a permanent uBOL process for the filtering to occur, and CSS/JS injection-based content filtering is performed reliably by the browser itself rather than by the extension. This means that uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources while content blocking is ongoing -- uBOL's service worker process is required only when you interact with the popup panel or the option pages.

Are you claiming non-lite does the same, plus more?

You say it's the same source code, but it's a different source code repository. non-lite, lite.