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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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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Firefox exists.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Cool story bro.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

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