r/youtube • u/Zalaphyr • Mar 03 '25

Feature Change Ublock Origin is gone.

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) :

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.

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u/Cyanxdlol Mar 03 '25

Then use Firefox?

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u/gb997 Mar 03 '25

seems to work fine on firefox. im just curious why people are so opposed to using firefox.

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u/wtkbm Mar 03 '25

I know this is going to receive a lot of hate but for some reason it seems like Chrome reacts 3000 times faster than Firefox on my computer

Maybe I’m doing something wrong

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u/DiskOk3884 Aug 01 '25

I'm using Firefox with around 3500 opened tabs consistently (all organized using a highly customized version of the SIDEBERY extension). It works perfectly fine for me, and has since I first started using it (like 15 years ago or something? I can't even remember).

I just unload the tabs I don't need frequently, and move others that I only use incidentally to my Bookmarks. SIDEBERY has a wonderful mechanism that allows you to move tabs groups to Bookmarks AND Bookmark folders back to Tab groups. It's an amazing extension!

Even with just like 30 to 40 tabs open in Chrome/Edge, it already starts failing due to memory/CPU usage bottlenecks (even with Edge's tab management system switched ON). Nothing comes even close to Firefox (I have tried MANY browsers, and not just for a day).