Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions

shrugs in Firefox

What could go wrong when you let an ad company dictate the browser standards/rules.

I know we have Firefox and some forks like librewolf, but percentage wise it feels like a lost battle ( even if I am on Firefox ).

If only people switched en masse to Firefox for the ad blocker. Wouldn't that be something... One big collective FU to Google.

Oh well. One can dream I guess.

We've known this was coming for a while now . . . but I suppose not everyone reads tech news.

I used to recommend uBlock as a no-brainer, now folks really need to change towards a better browser.

Maybe we're thinking about this wrong. Maybe we should all start running plugins that just load whatever ads that show up in the background hundreds of times without showing them to us. Every viewer is thousands upon thousands of impressions and click through rates become absolutely miserable. We can make the ads worthless or maybe even make them cost a significant amount of money to host.

I suspect this will soon be followed by a renewed effort by google to kill firefox compatability.

Didn't see this coming. Thanks for reporting it 😁

Looks like time to find a new browser!

Hopefully wikipedia recognizes this as the official Canary in the Chrome mine. I was first impressed with chrome book because of seeing them used for education, getting my own laptop during school would've been mindblowing to kid me. I was unimpressed with the strangulation process of the OS but again shocked when they added a linux boot mode. There needs to be better alternatives by now, I would be ok with an OS developed by the department of education in conjunction with higher educational institutions. Could have a decent non-profit approach to a browser and ad blockers could legitimately be built in as a "protect the children" aim of approach.

Been using Firefox for quite a time now! What are the other alternatives?

How many times has this been announced already?

I thought they already killed it? They keep killing it multiple times.

Are Opera and it's derivatives affected by this?

Can we get a fork orba dedicated browser that stays on manifest v2? Even Firefoxs lack of plans is disconcerting. I want expmicit plans to not play along

Lmao get rekt, I'm on a gecko based browser.

Great day to be a firefox user!

Wtf is Chrome Canary?

I'm currently using safari on a MacBook. Way more power efficient than chrome.

I'm being downvoted heavily on Reddit for suggesting thorium instead of Chrome.

My guess is bots as thorium is way faster and the dev hates the thought of a chromium browser without Adblock.

Moronically I think the Reddit hive mind is following that opinion and I may have to delete the comment or face site wide blacklisting which is what usually happens.

Hoping that Vivaldi is going to hold off somehow - perhaps with their built-in ad blocker. And before you say "switch to Firefox", I'll say I'm not gonna, at least not until I see native mouse gestures implemented and working everywhere.