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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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[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Google realized how much money they were losing by supporting adblock in the first place. They also had way too many extensions with MV2 that requested full site access...

At the end of the day, they want to force feed everyone advertisements. Often meant to make people angry or buy shit they don't need.

It's also why apps like NewPipe are in an arms race with the recent sideloading app changes for Android.

Inspired by the Ludovico Technique

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 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.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Firefox exists.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 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 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 45 minutes ago

Cool story bro.

[–] Solrac@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago

And people still use these trash dumpster of a browser?

[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 39 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Firefox and its derivatives (and Safari - sorry Apple users) are the only browsers not using Google's Blink web engine these days - at least until Ladybird is released.

Despite the Mozilla Foundation's many stupid decisions, Firefox (and Safari) is starting to look like the only thing stopping Google from completely controlling the internet.

[–] Yaztromo@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Not true — Safari is still based on WebKit. And Safari is still the default browser on over two and a half billion mobile devices currently in use. And say what you might about Apple, but at least they aren’t in the business of selling ads, and thus don’t have any business interest in allowing you to block them effectively, unlike Google.

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 7 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Lynx gang, assemble

[–] lethargicpuppy14@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

What's Lynx? A quick search gave me a lot of different things

[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

For real though. I had the thought earlier today of how I could reduce my internet usage to text only and try and skip all the bullshit. Might be tough but I'm not seeing another way. At least I'd still be able to access things like Wikipedia.

Between AI killing the idea of "believe what you can see" and ads/tracking being forced on every part of the internet, the end is very, very near.

And it should upset everyone, because the internet was not designed for this. We (the people) ultimately paid to develop what is being taken over by corpos for profit.

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

If not corporations' benefit, then whose?

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Links2 is not as funny to use, but it is easier to understand. It supports a graphical interface and images. I use it from time to time and it's nice when you know what you are looking for...

I used them cause my PC had 384 MB of RAM in 2012. It was ok for everything but surfing the web and lynx solved the issue.

If you are looking for something for the phone, i once used Vivaldi.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

People keep mentioning Firefox but fail to realize that Google, as the sole sponsor of Mozilla Corporation (not to be confused with Mozilla Foundation), can just kindly ask for Firefox to follow suit and gimp itself, just like it did before with a move to webextensions. Gotta admit it, Google has won the web, what they say (eventually) goes.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Google doesn't even need to get their hands dirty like that. IMO all they need to do is continue making it difficult for companies to support Firefox when designing their websites. That, in addition to making sure companies know that Google is tirelessly working to make sure Chrome won't work with ad blockers is going to eventually kill Firefox completely.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago) (1 children)

Glass half full time:

Making adblockers available to only people on the far fringe that are going to go through the extraordinary hoops to get it to work makes it less important to them to stymie the act of adblocking, because far fewer people are doing it. Businesses half-ass everything and do the lowest cost thing like always, so they will not bother to ever commit the token effort to stop the few remaining adblockers, making it trivially easy to perform the adblocking by comparison to today. The pendulum always swings, in everything, and one of the big factors that cause it to swing back even when all seems lost is that the current group or way of thinking that is at the forefront today has its group members get lazy and complacent in their superior position, creating opportunities for the opposition.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If there are no remaining mainstream browsers that support ad blockers that pendulum is going to take a long time to swing back.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Necessity is the mother of invention. Now they're basically making us work on it. Sometimes loud obvious actions like this are the catalyst to more drastic response. Everything often seems to always stay the same, but everything stays the same up until the very second it doesn't. Nobody knows when that will be, but it will be.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Like how they killed JPEG-XL.

All over some employee’s ego associated with his AVIF contributions, from what I’ve seen.

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[–] CarpalTunnelButt@sh.itjust.works 43 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] EtzBetz@feddit.org 41 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

Just use Firefox (or Zen Browser, which is a nice fork of Firefox)

[–] UsoSaito@feddit.uk 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Waterfox

[–] domdanial@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago

I counter with IronFox! Lol I just enjoy all the alternativeFox options

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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ungoogled Chromium and Librewolf really suits my needs, i dont even think about those issues ever since i started using them.

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

Won't this eventually affect them as well because this is an update to the underlying chromium engine?

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