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uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

by aryan14 on 2/19/25, 7:06 AM with 40 comments

  • by mort96 on 2/19/25, 7:15 AM

    The link goes to the normal uBlock Origin landing page, which contains no suggestion that anything has been disabled... It contains, among other things, some details about how some functionality is reduced in some browsers due to Manifest V3, is that what the title is getting at? Regardless, "uBlock Origin has been disabled" seems like a falsehood, unless there's something I'm missing?

  • by gnabgib on 2/19/25, 7:13 AM

    Not the page title, works fine in some browsers.

    Related:

    Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (119 points, 4 months ago, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178

    About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (182 points, 6 months ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140185

    In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 (143 points, 1 year ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361758

  • by dcow on 2/19/25, 7:23 AM

    Why do people still use Chrome? At this point every argument for switching to Chrome from IE back in the day now applies to Google Chrome.

  • by datadeft on 2/19/25, 7:21 AM

    I have been using AdGuardHome on two raspberry pi nodes and it is the best filter I ever had.

    2,320,452 DNS Queries

    117,334 Blocked by Filters (5.06%).

    Top blocked domains:

        eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com 45,3543 8.65%
    euc-word-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 7,573 6.45%
    metrics.icloud.com 6,475 5.52%
    4...13.us-east-1.prod.service.minerva.devices.a2z.com 4,351 3.71%
    euc-excel-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 4,141 3.53%
    https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

  • by Meekro on 2/19/25, 7:14 AM

    The linked page doesn't say anything about this, but it's true. I just restarted Chrome and it turned off uBlock Origin. However, it was easy to ignore the warning and turn it back on.

  • by gattilorenz on 2/19/25, 7:14 AM

    Not on Firefox :)

    Also, this should have (2024) in the title

  • by isoprophlex on 2/19/25, 7:14 AM

    I have not used chrome since... 2017?

    I've been entirely fine all that time.

  • by JacobJack on 2/19/25, 6:09 PM

    Indeed... Today, Chrome simply removed uBlock Origin (and Redirector, which I use regularly in development). That's the last straw... Besides, I don't see how I can surf the web these days without uBlock Origin.

  • by xnx on 2/19/25, 12:32 PM

    I haven't been following this multi-year saga closely because my test is simple: as soon as I see an unwanted ad in Chrome, I'm out. Haven't gotten there yet.

  • by dev-jayson on 2/19/25, 7:22 AM

    Working fine on FireFox. Can someone from Chrome Confirm?

  • by kappuchino on 2/19/25, 7:18 AM

    Karma farming?

  • by Hizonner on 2/19/25, 1:50 PM

    Google Chrome has been disabled.

  • by bttrpll on 2/19/25, 10:30 AM

    works on Brave Browser