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Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout

by el_duderino on 2/21/25, 9:32 PM with 11 comments

  • by bediger4000 on 2/21/25, 9:54 PM

    Another example of advertising corrupting ad supported media. Chrome runs on individually-owned computers. Ads consume those individuals' resources, storage space, CPU (in the case of ads that use JavaScript) and network bandwidth. Individuals should have the choice of allowing some outside entity using their resources. In this, we see why web advertising is so alluring to corporations: it uses other peoples' resources. Web advertising is cheaper because of this.

  • by vermaden on 2/22/25, 3:30 PM

  • by ChrisArchitect on 2/26/25, 11:54 AM

  • by Zopieux on 2/21/25, 11:57 PM

    Trash press. Click-baity article that doesn't even attempt to explain that the solution is to install the similarly named "uBlock Origin Lite" which is the Manifest v3 counterpart and works perfectly fine out of the box, and is on-par with uBlock Origin after giving it a few extra permissions (2 clicks).

    The v3 FUD spreaders remind me of systemd haters.