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Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Hello:

From today's edition of The Register:

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions
Chrome ad blocker stopped working? Time to look elsewhere

Best,

A.

swanson

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Registered: 2020-04-22

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Firefox and uBlock Origin works very well. Recommend it.

SpongeBOB

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From: Brussels

Registered: 2022-02-07

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I would recommend librewolf.net

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golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Death by 1,000 cuts . . .

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ruenoak

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2017-05-28

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Removed from Edge as well apparently.
To my surprise uBlock Origin is available for my beloved SeaMonkey!

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delgado

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 229  

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Chrome is may things** but not a browser.
It may be used for something sweet like this web site, but not in the wild, where it turns into an advertising delivery platform.

**audio/video encoder/decoder, debugger, environment for online games, part of a web-shop, ... and what not.

einpoklum

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Registered: 2021-07-21

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Firefox and uBlock Origin works very well. Recommend it.

Firefox _cannot_ be recommended, I'm afraid. They have been collecting a lot of telemetry for a while; their internal governance is terrible and very oppressive; and now - they've indicated the intent to sell your data, or mine it and sell, or something along those lines - and are planning to have users give them explicit permission to do this; see this ArsTechnica coverage.

There is a patch re-enabling manifest-v3 support (it's quite trivial, i.e. the restriction is for socio-political reasons, not any technical necessity); it can also be applied on its own, but perhaps we (or Debian) should look into ungoogled chromium - which removes all of the call-home's and includes this patch and other privacy-oriented ones. I wish thaty could be a Devuan (or Debian) package.

Last edited by einpoklum (2025-03-06 13:14:28)

pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

There is also uBlock Origin Lite which does work in Edge and the newer versions of Chrome/Chromium.

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Ron

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Registered: 2018-04-22

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

uBlock Origin still works for me in Chromium. Will it stop working at some point?