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 …

    • RandomStickman@fedia.io
      10·
      2 months ago

      Xitter doesn’t load for me

      xcancel.com still works… for now.

      Though I think Brave has a builtin adblocker

      Further down the article it says “Brave has a number of feature gaps compared to uBlock Origin, resulting in worse effectiveness as well.” It’s hard to beat uBO.

        • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          You’re right, I found it here. I thought it was based on uBlock because there’s a UI somewhere in Brave for ad blocking that is suspiciously close to uBlock’s UI for blocking specific elements on a site.

          • Deanne@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            there’s also a phyton library that lets you use brave’s adblocker on other browsers like qutebrowser

        • festnt@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 months ago

          oh, thx for saying. i also thought it was based on ublock, though im not sure where i got that information from