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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Google's campaign against ad blockers across its services just got more aggressive. According to a report by PC World, the company has made some alterations to its extension support on Google Chrome.

Google Chrome recently changed its extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the new Manifest V3 framework. The browser policy changes will impact one of the most popular adblockers (arguably), uBlock Origin.

The transition to the Manifest V3 framework means extensions like uBlock Origin can't use remotely hosted code. According to Google, it "presents security risks by allowing unreviewed code to be executed in extensions." The new policy changes will only allow an extension to execute JavaScript as part of its package.

Over 30 million Google Chrome users use uBlock Origin, but the tool will be automatically disabled soon via an update. Google will let users enable the feature via the settings for a limited period before it's completely scrapped. From this point, users will be forced to switch to another browser or choose another ad blocker.

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[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Stop using chrome and move to Firefox, also stop using Windows and more to Linux.

[–] ActionHank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Or the Mullvad browser, Mullvad's fork of FF with zero ads with help from the Tor project.

[–] shadycomposer@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google is Mozilla’s dad so I’m not sure how long we will be able to use FF with v2.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Even a short-lived chance to cling to Fx is worth something. Hopefully they will team up with others to port the missing parts to v3.

[–] Mixel@szmer.info -5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Firefox is now owned by ads company. By default there are enabled telemetrics and moreover companies starts to ignore compability of their web services with browser which market share is lower than 2% even goverments stops considering that browser. Mozzila instead of optimization of their browser spend time introduceing features like AI. I was trying to like that browser but mozzila effectively does not allow me. Now btw. I use just vivaldi. I know this is not fully open source.

[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which "ads company"? No offense, just curious.

[–] Mixel@szmer.info -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/mozilla-anonym-acquisition-privacy-preserving-advertising-online#:~:text=Mozilla%2C%20the%20company%20that%20owns,privacy%2Dpreserving%20digital%20advertising%20company.

[–] Matthew@midwest.social 13 points 3 months ago

Says Mozilla owns the ad company. Not sure where it says the ad company owns mozilla

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Were Firefox to go bad, we would use a non-bad fork off Firefox. It's open source.

[–] Mixel@szmer.info 3 points 3 months ago

They are not independent. It all soft fork. Everything depends on firefox. If firefox die all the forks will die with too.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

So you use Chromium...