Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
  • Google is transitioning Chrome’s extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
  • This means users won’t be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
  • However, there’s a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn’t boast the original version’s comprehensive ad-blocking features.
  • Ogmios
    1•3 months ago

    Yea, I’m just waiting for the bomb to go off when Mozilla inevitably ends up following Google’s example.

    • @sheogorath
      18•3 months ago

      Thankfully, Firefox is open-source, so we can just use one of the forks, or perhaps Ladybird will be ready for general release by that time.

    • @ngwooEnglish
      12•3 months ago

      Firefox already adopted manifest V3 but specifically kept the features needed for adblockers

    • Lemminary
      1•3 months ago

      Yep, I’m watching intently with the shit they’ve been doing.