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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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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 177 points 1 day ago (55 children)

Oh look all the "chrome but in a different outfit" browsers are doing the same terrible shit? What a shocker, no one could have predicted that the many many things all on the same base where actuality just fake competition.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

It's a damn shame, I've always liked Vivaldi otherwise. I've been dual running Vivaldi and Firefox for years now, Vivaldi for casual browsing and Firefox for more serious stuff + YouTube.

Oh well, it's time to do a full switch, I guess.

Kinda funny, I've been doing the exact same thing with Win/Linux for approximately the same length of time. Needed Win because of dome software that just doesn't work linux, and sadly, I still do.

Google and Microsoft can go fuck each other with a frozen cactus for all I care.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The folks at Vivaldi have been doing some work on their internal ad blocker, I think with the intention to bring most of the functionality of uBo internally so that it doesn't have to be an extension. Not sure how far along they are, but maybe they're intentionally keeping it quiet.

[–] reka@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Vivaldi have earned and deserve a lot of trust here I believe. All my chromium eggs sit in their basket.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Same here. I'm an Opera refugee so to say (and I had high hopes for Opera actually). I've been using Vivaldi since its first public alpha/preview/whatever they were calling it.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yup, Vivaldi user for 8 years and it hasn't let me down yet, but this post is troubling news.

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