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.
  • @[email protected]English
    18•3 months ago

    Now they will be forced to look at ads.

    I’m pretty sure they would’ve been seeing ads anyways. I doubt that school IT administrators had uBlock Origins as an extension that was being installed and I really doubt they didn’t have the chromebooks locked down so students could install whatever extensions they wanted.

    • @madcaesar
      15•3 months ago

      Good, smart IT would have installed ublock and locked that shit down. Saves bandwidth and protects the kids.

      But you’re probably right, most IT departments are useless.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•3 months ago

        Yeah, I’m not saying it’s not a good practice, but I just don’t see them doing it.

      • Kogasa
        0•3 months ago

        Don’t think it saves bandwidth unless it’s a DNS level block, which IT should also do but separately from uBO

    • Flying Squid
      3•3 months ago

      I was able to install it on my daughter’s Chromebook.