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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)

submitted 1 day ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

Ublock was already somewhat neutered on Chrome, and people didn’t seem to notice. They keep using it.

I’m just so cynical these days. It’s not like the Windows XP era, where people eventually get fed up with enshittification, and move.

Google won. Facebook won.

They have absolute control, basically.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

In all sadness, folks on Lemi and other more technically inclined forums infight even more than leftists infight, and all they do is sabotage themselves.

Projects like Firefox are mountains above Chrome when it comes to privacy and not ceding web control over to Google. Yet any thread about anything Firefox is doing is just filled with FUD from people complaining about small individual changes or Firefox not being perfect enough, so on and so forth.

It's self-sabotage. If you didn't think Firefox is good enough, congratulations. Now you've got Chrome, and pretty soon you won't have Firefox.

😒

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

its been removed since like past 10 years, dont know why people is still using it. i moved to firefox immediately just to keep the ublock origins, and theres other extensions.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Firefox exists.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

At ~3.5% market share, depending on the statistics source. And declining, month-on-month:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2025-q4

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

At this point when someone complains about anything but Linux, I just bully them.

[–] ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That seems like you're complaining about people complaining, we should totally bully you. /j

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

We should! How do you propose we proceed?

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Cool story bro.