We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the …

  • terusgormand8465@lemmings.world
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    17 days ago

    Clickbait and misleading title, they’re putting in motion what they said they would do for years. That being the manifest v3 change to extensions, and the deprecation of manifest v2. They’re not killing uBlock origin, they’re changing the rules of what extensions can do and how they’re built.