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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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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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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Death by 1,000 cuts . . .

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ruenoak

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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: 239  

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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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?

Nicholas Flamy

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Registered: 2025-05-06

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Brave Browser is extending manifest V2 support for a little while and they also have a built-in adblocker, which is probably based on every other adblocker: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

mirrortokyo

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Registered: 2021-04-08

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I am currently holding chromium / chromium-common / chromium-sandbox at version 134.0.6998.117-1 to keep uBlock Origin working.

stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I am currently holding chromium / chromium-common / chromium-sandbox at version 134.0.6998.117-1 to keep uBlock Origin working.

Hello.

In my subjective opinion, this is a very bad solution. For security reasons. The current version of chromium is 136.0.7103.92....

Last edited by stopAI (2025-05-15 11:17:59)

UnixMan1230

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Registered: 2023-10-21

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

There's always KDE Falkon...they have a plugin that lets you use your own lists. took me a while to get right, and sadly I can't attach mine here, but it does work once configured. a pain to keep up with, though.

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lynch9

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Registered: 2024-07-17

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Can't recommend Palemoon enough. It sucks a bit less than everything else, but it really depends on what you're looking for in a web browser

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EDX-0

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Registered: 2020-12-12

Posts: 114  

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

brave, it just works, brave's own adblock is inspired on uBlockOrigin if i remember correctly to the point you should be able to use the same filters in brave brave://settings/shields/filters enable developer mode and you can enter your own custom filters and scriptlets

as for firefox... do not use firefox, use librewolf or try to build gnu icecat, unfortunately some years ago debian dropped the iceweasel project when firefox relaxed their trademark policies, a new fork of firefox really needs to come up but that is a different can of worms...