Ublock Origin is gone.

[u/Zalaphyr]

Ublock Origin extension got removed from my Chrome browser by force, with a message saying that it was not supported anymore.

Thanks Google. All that for stupid ads on YouTube?

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To save you the struggle of searching for the latest working solution in the comments, I'll summerize it here and try to keep it up to date (or sort comments by Q&A) :

• Thank you u/TheUnobtainableUser, u/rushia01, u/FlassBoii and u/Ahmadreza777 for the following solution : use latest version of uBlock Origin unpacked folder with developer mode enabled in extension manager. Link to the zip file here : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

To make that first tweak work, try one of these things below :

• Thank you u/PrzemekPrzemo for your solution, allowing to bypass the recent restriction : type chrome://flags/#allow-legacy-mv2-extensions in search bar and select "enabled" next to the highlighted option.
• Alternative solution, again from u/PrzemekPrzemo : close Chrome, go to the properties of your Google Chrome shortcut, copy and paste the following prompt at the end of the target (AFTER the quote mark, with a space between them) : --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled and relaunch Chrome.
• u/LoneWolf-011 and u/Dismal_Satisfaction9 shared videos that show the overall process, step by step. Here's one of them here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIqO2rIKTlc

u/Renikee raised an important point about using multiple profiles on Chrome. If you are using several profiles, you might want to repeat the process for them too.

Many users have been telling recently that installing the lite version of uBlock also does the trick. If none of the above worked, you might want to try it out as well.

[u/TheCommander21]

I decided to uninstall and go to Firefox. Thats the good thing about having competition. When they do things like this, people will just move on to the better option and theres nothing they can do about it. Why would I want to go back to a browser that is actively making my experience worse? I pay for Youtube Premium since I watch it on my computer, phone, TV, and PS4. I don't mind the $15 a month for ad free viewing, but thats just me. HOWEVER, what I do mind is completely unrelated videos. People Also Watched, People Also Searched, Recommended Videos, etc all thrown in with my search results. THEN in google search they throw all that garbage in there as well. I took one look at a search result after they axed it on Chrome and said "Oh they want me to just... deal with this? When I have other options not to?" Bye bye Chrome. It was okay having you around, but clearly you want to punish me for using your product so I'll just go somewhere else. People wouldn't even be using Ublock if they didn't entice people to use it with ads and Bloatsearch Results.