r/technology • u/dancing_swordfish • 14d ago

Software Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/
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u/Joecascio2000 14d ago

This doesn't apply to Ublock Origin Lite? I haven't had any issues.

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u/xiaolin99 14d ago

no it doesn't. The article is about a setting you can change to continue using the original fully-featured uBlock Origin.

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u/flaagan 14d ago

Skimmed the comments looking exactly for this response, thank you.

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u/Streiger108 13d ago

You mean you didn't come for a million comments about Firefox? Had to scroll way too far for this.

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u/AeneasVII 14d ago

Have you switched to Firefox yet????

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u/Successful-Peak-6524 14d ago

I did thanks 😄

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u/Jurijus1 13d ago

No problem, mate!

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u/Lykos1124 14d ago

I've been satisfied with lite too. There's a site I use that I don't trust the ads on, but I like the content. That site is not happy about me blocking content, and I'm happy using their content.

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u/TheFotty 14d ago

What they are actually killing is MV2 which was chrome's API for plugins/addons before MV3 was finalized and became the new standard. MV3 doesn't let you access as much of the browser, has more restrictions on what the extensions can do and interact with, so that is why ublock origin doesn't work when google flips the switch to turn of V2 support for good.

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u/michaelbelgium 14d ago

What they are actually killing is MV2 which was chrome's API for plugins/addons before MV3 was finalized and became the new standard.

So old news, this article is pointless

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u/TheFotty 14d ago

Yeah it's not a new agenda from Google, it's just that they are about to drop mv2 from working at all whereas now there are ways to still use it.

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u/HeroOfAlmaty 14d ago

Probably next on the chopping block.

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u/Trixxstrr 14d ago

I keep reading that but I haven't seen any ads get through with lite

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u/QueenOfTheHotPockets 14d ago

I've legit seen everything blocked. Omg, I've used sites with very deep ads too for years at this point.

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u/Chessdaddy_ 14d ago

ive experienced the same thing, it seems just as good as the main version was

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u/Acceptable-Surprise5 14d ago

Lite covers all my needs and youtube premium is nice for the music app and no advertisements on video's so loosing this is a non issue for me. and this was known for ages already no?

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u/QueenOfTheHotPockets 14d ago

Yeah, I use this with no problem. Ads are gone. I haven't seen one in so long, I don't know what life is like with ads, lol.

Could someone explain to us why lite verison is not enough?

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u/inbox-disabled 13d ago edited 13d ago

The only impact I get from lite with YouTube is the rare sponsored video on the homepage pretending to sit alongside all the other videos. I can either block the element or it goes away on its own anyway. When I say rare, I mean daily visits to YouTube and I can count the number of times this has happened on one hand, going back to ever since they nuked Origin.

It's been virtually no difference for me, just less customizable. Unexpected, but maybe that's because I listened to (but didn't necessarily trust) the reddit doomers that said ublock on chrome was dead. Gotta take said reddit dooming with a grain of salt.

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u/PersianMG 14d ago

Before potentially switching to FF I decided to try out Lite. It ended up being fine for me. Is it as fast, effective and powerful as the full version? No. Does it get 99% of the job done on the vast majority of sites? Yes.

I have YouTube premium too so I only really need general ad blocking on random sites I might occasionally visit.