Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
- Google is transitioning Chrome's extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
- This means users won't be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
- However, there's a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn't boast the original version's comprehensive ad-blocking features.
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FYI TELL YOUR LOVED ONES ABOUT THIS
If you are on here you're probably like me "the it guy of the family"
Mom and dad aren't going to switch themselves, remove chrome for them as the default install Firefox and tell them to use that unless something absolutely refuses to work. Pick your battles.
If you are the IT guy just buy a raspberry pi or a cheap mini pc and install pi-hole at your parents place that you can access remotely. That way their entire network is blocked from ads and you can troubleshoot from anywhere.
And then it gets blamed every time something doesn't work right with the internet
I gave my parents 3 "The internet stopped working so I reset the router"s before I stopped trying. If you can't follow the simplest instructions you're on your own. Enjoy your adds and paying for subscription services.
Yeah that's what happened with my wife. Had to scrap PiHole because she didn't want to deal with it.
Honestly that's way too much work. Keep it simple imo.
It is simple. Probably simpler than educating a stubborn boomer to use a different browser.
I can't even get my mom to stop believing that her bank would text her asking for her account info.
Good news for Mom, Firefox doesn't really change functionality wise compared to Chrome.
Sometimes people just refuse common sense and have to be left to ruin their own lives, no matter how much you love them.
Cause theres no point drowning yourself, trying to keep idiots that refuse to swim above water.