Like that time they disabled those reddit plugins that were used to fight trolls/nazis on the site, a change which unsurprisingly caused a huge surge of far right trolling on the platform until people found out how to get around it. Evil company.

And like that, they just ensured that I'd sooner use Edge than go back to anything with the faintest whiff of Chrome in it

NOT ENTIRELY TRUE. 🤦

Google confirms they will disable MV2 extensions including uBlock Origin in mid 2024

MV2 extensions.

Ublock Origin Lite is MV3 based: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh

Yes, it's not exactly the same, in how filters are embedded instead of updated separately.

In any case, this is part of Google's long (long, since 2018 or earlier?) transition to MV3.

• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
• https://9to5google.com/2023/11/16/chrome-extensions-disabled/

So let's put down the pitchforks and Monster energy drinks for the moment. This isn't the attack on adblockers you think it is.

Why the HN post is a link to Reddit? Why people still use Reddit? I downvoted this and the HN post