Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store

[Athlonite69]

Vivaldi for the win as they've stated that they will not be moving Vivaldi to manifest V3 ever so uBlock Origin will keep working just as before. Google can do whatever they want with their crappy browser but they can't force other Chromium browser makers to comply with manifest V3, so if your a die hard Chrome user now's the time to find another browser to use and give Google and it's Chrome browser the giant middle finger!.

 

[PurpaFur]

When my Youtube started blocking videos because of my adblocker today, that was the last straw. Been a die-hard chrome fan for all my life, but this is going too far. Installed Opera GX and it's honestly really nice. And adblockers still work!

 

[toooooot]

Not a problem for me. Like everyone else I've switched to another browser for home usage (mostly to block YouTube ads).

I currently use Edge with uBlock installed. If that becomes compromised I'll switch to Firefox or another.

They very seriously wishing to make it a problem for us all. So it could become a problem. I dont think they will stop there. And we might end up with only their approved browsers work well with YT, they would work well, but so will the ads.

 

[Axeia]

Android was actually forked by huawei so that can work well.

Its however based on Android 10 (we're on 15). Keeping projects of that size in line with the main project is not easy.

Ff already implemented manifest v3 and who knows what's next... We definitely need more competition on the market.

That won't be at the cost of V2 and unlike with Chromium Google had no say in it.
With how long Firefox has been around including extension support I wouldn't be surprised if it's even possible to avoid manifest entirely and do the same thing through other APIs. That's just an assumption though, I've never written a Firefox extension (just a couple of greasemonkey scripts)

 

[Karlos95]

I put ublock on my clients computers because (usually old) reduces the amount of scammy pop ups. So basically what Chrome is saying, they rather have their users get scammed than to lose ad revenue on youtube. Diabolical move by such a diabolical company.

 

[ZedRM]

Guess it's time to switch to Firefox . The internet without adblocker is rubbish.

TRUTH! It's crazy pathetic obnoxious without an adblocker!

 

[Archean]

Switched all my devices to Firefox about 4 years ago. Ads have gotten out of control. Something I find really annoying is when something opens up in chrome on android. I hit the back button to leave the site but instead it just takes me the "related articles" part of a website and doesn't, actually, take me off the page. Or when I hit the back button and it opens a popup asking me to enter my email for a newsletter on a website. And I do have FF set as my default browser on Android. However, Android still opens some links in chrome. I have a VPN adblocker on my phone but the ads still someone get through on chrome.

Mobile internet is insufferable and unusable without an adblocker.

Indeed Firefox is pretty good (despite some regressions which can be manually adjusted).

I think two Firefox forks are worthy of consideration, they are Floorp which offers brilliant overall experience, and second is LibreWolf which focus purely on privacy.

No matter which distro I'm using I usually have FF or Floorp or Librewolf along with Brave or Thorium (a decent fork of Chrome). Though both Brave and Thorium at some point in future may end up having to adjust to realities of MF3.

 

[Athlonite69]

Not a problem for me. Like everyone else I've switched to another browser for home usage (mostly to block YouTube ads).

I currently use Edge with uBlock installed. If that becomes compromised I'll switch to Firefox or another.

Yeah it won't be long before Edge follows Chromes footsteps down the path to perdition I'd use something like Vivaldi instead who already stated they will not be moving to manifest V3 ever

 

[Starfals]

Had Firefox for like 50 years now. It's been good. I don't have many issues with it. It can be slower than Chrome sometimes. When I open the Google browser, it's much faster and smoother. FF has some kind of delay and lag when I open pages. Stuff dont load too fast either. Its like I got bad net or something. The difference can be between 15 and 40% (rarely 40, usually 15-25%) STILL, ill never get rid of it. Blocking of ads can do so many GOOD things for ur old laptop. Performance, no scams, better battery life, doesn't eat ur limited net with useless pop up videos. The list can go on and on. The modern net is horrible without blockers. Sometimes you need to remove like 30 things before you can even see what you wanna see. Insane. Sometimes I even remove the thing I wanted to see... cus of too much clicking or cus they send you to a new place and you gotta go back manually. Sometimes you cant even do that, it takes 50 times to just click the back button. Idk whats going on anymore.

People will surely still stay with Chrome, its what they know... people sure love their habits. No matter what Chrome does, they wont delete it. Poor Firefox, gettin lower and lower numbers while still being an awesome althernative (altho, not as fast as I have mentioned, but its not a huge difference either)

 

[Mark Fuller]

Like the editor's note said ads keep this website free. This applies to others as well. You can get anything that you pay for with ad blockers by just having to put up with the ads. I remember in the days of free television broadcasts in analog that you didn't have any choice and commercial advertising is what made the world go round for many years. I will say more about analog broadcasts like you could get reception in any weather no matter how hard it rained and the only problem was to turn the antenna in the right direction and except for the occasional lightning strike nearby or an arc in a nearby powerline, there was little in the way of RF interference. Of course today, commercial advertising on the world wide web means spam, viruses, and whatever can be stolen by way of identity theft. Oh for the good old days.

 

[DekkB]

Can the last person using Chrome, please turn out the light...

 

[havok585]

Had Firefox for like 50 years now. It's been good. I don't have many issues with it. It can be slower than Chrome sometimes. When I open the Google browser, it's much faster and smoother. FF has some kind of delay and lag when I open pages. Stuff dont load too fast either. Its like I got bad net or something. The difference can be between 15 and 40% (rarely 40, usually 15-25%) STILL, ill never get rid of it. Blocking of ads can do so many GOOD things for ur old laptop. Performance, no scams, better battery life, doesn't eat ur limited net with useless pop up videos. The list can go on and on. The modern net is horrible without blockers. Sometimes you need to remove like 30 things before you can even see what you wanna see. Insane. Sometimes I even remove the thing I wanted to see... cus of too much clicking or cus they send you to a new place and you gotta go back manually. Sometimes you cant even do that, it takes 50 times to just click the back button. Idk whats going on anymore.

People will surely still stay with Chrome, its what they know... people sure love their habits. No matter what Chrome does, they wont delete it. Poor Firefox, gettin lower and lower numbers while still being an awesome althernative (altho, not as fast as I have mentioned, but its not a huge difference either)

if you have that issue with FF, that means you have it configured wrongly. firefox can run CPU only or HARDWARE accelerated GPU on pages. if u have a laptop with 2 gpu's, incorporated and discrete, that could be your issue. U could also force FF to use only cpu for rendering, as long as your cpu is modern and not obsolete, ff runs the same buttery smooth as chrome.

 

[RobertK1]

Simple fix, ublock
Origin should just continue making their product and post it on their website or github. They can make it work with v3 can't they? Edge, and Brave already have their own stores, Vivaldi should make one too. Unless Google can sue companies for using ublock and/or sue ublock for continuing updating it and if they can make it work with v3 they're all good.

 

[Vanderlinde]

I've tested V3,

It still renders the ads, and it removes it afterwards. that's how restrictive the new V3 is. It also makes pages significant slower.

To be fair; use Adguard, pi-hole, or a free DNS ad-blocked based DNS service.

 

[trparky]

To be fair; use Adguard, pi-hole, or a free DNS ad-blocked based DNS service.

That’s what I’ve done, though I use full AdGuard; not just DNS blocking.

 

[hwertz]

Simple fix, ublock
Origin should just continue making their product and post it on their website or github. They can make it work with v3 can't they? Edge, and Brave already have their own stores, Vivaldi should make one too. Unless Google can sue companies for using ublock and/or sue ublock for continuing updating it and if they can make it work with v3 they're all good.

I mean, it's still available for Firefox. And no, not really, these don't work properly in v3 at all. V3 has something like a list where extensions can list sites to block, but I don't think it allows wildcard searches at all and the limit on number of items on this list is intentionally too small to suit extensions like UBlock. And worse, as others say, what does work renders the ads anyway then removes them from the screen ("worst of both worlds" -- it's not going to count as an ad impression but it's still going to burn through your CPU time, RAM, and bandwidth.)

 

[OortCloud]

Simple fix, ublock
Origin should just continue making their product and post it on their website or github. They can make it work with v3 can't they? Edge, and Brave already have their own stores, Vivaldi should make one too. Unless Google can sue companies for using ublock and/or sue ublock for continuing updating it and if they can make it work with v3 they're all good.

Brave doesn't need a blocker in the store - has one built in that works perfectly on YouTube (and all other sites I use).

 

[Axeia]

When my Youtube started blocking videos because of my adblocker today, that was the last straw. Been a die-hard chrome fan for all my life, but this is going too far. Installed Opera GX and it's honestly really nice. And adblockers still work!

Why be a hardcore chrome fan in the first place? With Chromium being OpenSource it shares most of its functionality with everything else Chromium based (Edge, Vivaldi etc including Opera GX). So page rendering and javascript performance should be the exact same (when underlying version numbers are the same). It's just the sauce on top, the UI that differs.

 

[Hotlynx16]

F' Google.I agree! Started using Firefox when Netscape went belly up! Firefox user ever since!

 

[Hotlynx16]

I've always hated Chrome, sadly, never liked Firefox much. I've always used Opera, and now sometimes Vivaldi or Brave.

Tried Opera, it was OK but now I hear it is Chinese controlled????

 

[TechMonger]

I split my usage between a Chromebook and PC (Windows 10 thank you) and have been looking for just one more excuse to abandon Chromebooks.

 

[ZedRM]

I split my usage between a Chromebook and PC (Windows 10 thank you) and have been looking for just one more excuse to abandon Chromebooks.

And now you have one. Suggestion? Install Linux on your ChromeBook.

 

[PurpaFur]

Why be a hardcore chrome fan in the first place? With Chromium being OpenSource it shares most of its functionality with everything else Chromium based (Edge, Vivaldi etc including Opera GX). So page rendering and javascript performance should be the exact same (when underlying version numbers are the same). It's just the sauce on top, the UI that differs.

I liked Chrome for its cross-device sync, as well as the ease of use with other Google products. As Google is becoming an increasingly worse choice for privacy, I am ditching it one product at a time. Hard to do when everything from my phone to smart home to email is all Google. Working on it.

 

[Athlonite69]

I liked Chrome for its cross-device sync, as well as the ease of use with other Google products. As Google is becoming an increasingly worse choice for privacy, I am ditching it one product at a time. Hard to do when everything from my phone to smart home to email is all Google. Working on it.

Vivaldi does cross device sync