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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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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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[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago

Sure but that alternative doesn't work for anyone who already doesn't own an Apple device. Also those two and a half billion devices you mentioned can't run alt browsers due to Apple policy so you're basically just picking another company to hand complete control to.

[-] bilb@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

It's true, but it's a company that doesn't sell advertisements at least.

[-] arararagi@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago

But it's a company that also doesn't allow you to block said ads.

[-] Yaztromo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Huh? It may not be built—in, but Safari has a variety of ad block plugins available - on all platforms (macOS, iOS, iPadOS).

On top of that they do have built in tracker avoidance — something Google is even less likely to ever implement into Chrome (especially considering they’re not pretty much the top tracking company out there).

[-] arararagi@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

Can you show me ublock origin running on your mobile safari?

[-] iamnotme@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

I’m blocking ads on iOS with Safari. Granted it’s not baked in to the browser but I have AdGuard installed and that does a good job of suppressing YouTube ads.

I also connect back to my server at home via VPN no matter where I am and run PiHole for DNS resolution on that

[-] arararagi@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

So you admit it's a mobile browser without extensions like ublock

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