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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled and tells users to switch to other ad blockers before deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions  —  Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

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[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's an unfortunate situation. The tightening of restrictions around direct access to the URLs a page is accessing definitely improves security (think about how many random malware add-ons tech illiterate people install), but also makes filter lists much more difficult to implement.

Ublock Origin Lite is fully V3 compliant. They work around the issue by having a "basic" filter mode that hands off their list to the browser and trusts Chrome itself to do the filtering, rather than the add-on. You can also give it full permissions on a site by site basis, which will then work almost exactly like Ublock Origin.

[-] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Sadly the element blocker is one piece that was stripped away due to the limitations of the new V3 requirements

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