uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

[mort96]

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?

[hnuser123456]

A couple weeks ago, chrome updated, and forcefully disabled any extensions that didn't conform to the new standards, and displayed a popup to the user that they had incompatible extensions that were disabled.

[gnabgib]

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

[dcow]

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.

[Yizahi]

I was recently at a local IT meetup, a majority of us were senior developers. And a topic took turn to browsers and Chrome at some point, so of course I've had to voice my two cents about Chrome monopoly and Firefox :) . A few guys were genuinely surprised and asked me "You are using Firefox?" as if it was something unthinkable. To me this was incomprehensible. I'm using FF on Windows since beta and FF on Android since its release and I'm baffled why doesn't anyone else (well, advertising is the answer of course).

[tim333]

I use it. It works well. The new lens thing is cool. You really have to spend a while scouring tech forums to find out how you are a sinner for using it.

[shpx]

Firefox's keyboard shortcut for new incognito tab is objectively wrong (Cmd+Shift+P vs. Cmd+Shift+N). It turns out that even if you're one of those weirdos that configures his web browser, it's impossible even for you to change it because Firefox has a separate shortcut for "Reopen Closed Tab" (Cmd+Shift+T) and "Reopen Closed Window" (Cmd+Shift+N) instead of just having one, which is even dumber. If I close the last tab of a window and press Cmd+Shift+T the right thing to do is just to do nothing? Really?

No one at Mozilla will ever have the conviction and power to fix this design misstep. I had a bunch of other reasons typed up but finding out that this will be wrong forever is actually enough for me.

I hate ads more than anyone and I'll switch if I'm forced to but Firefox is just a bad knock off of a browser forever playing catch up with the real thing. But I'm glad someone's doing it.

[reportgunner]

Peer pressure

[mort96]

Because 1) Google pushes it hard with their extremely popular web services, and 2) it feels more snappy than Firefox.

I mean I use Firefox, but any time I have to open Chrome for whatever reason, it just feels like the UI is responding a handful of milliseconds faster than Firefox, even on very powerful hardware.

[datadeft]

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

[mirashii]

Then it seems unlikely you've given ublock origin a real try. Not only can you just use the adguard filter lists in ublock origin, but DNS-based adblocking is and has been increasingly insufficient. What ublock origin can do is a strict superset of what adguard can do, and will perform better as you avoid sending out network requests at all.

[beretguy]

I use NextDNS with almost all filters enabled. It blocks about ~30% off all requests.

[Meekro]

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.

[Brybry]

I generally use Firefox but uBlock Origin still works on Chrome 133.0.6943.127 for me without any warning or intervention.

I do have developer mode already toggled on which might make a difference?

[nomilk]

Can you explain this? Is it just a warning message? Does uBlock Origin extension still work in chrome browser?

[gattilorenz]

Not on Firefox :)

Also, this should have (2024) in the title

[isoprophlex]

I have not used chrome since... 2017?

I've been entirely fine all that time.

[ikari_pl]

And things work just great in Firefox.

[000ooo000]

Good for you

[JacobJack]

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.

[xnx]

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.

[dev-jayson]

Working fine on FireFox. Can someone from Chrome Confirm?

[tim333]

uBlock working fine on Chrome.

There seems an implication that Chrome will stop manifest v2 and then users will have to switch to uBlock Origin Lite.

Personally I'm not going to worry till that happens.

[bttrpll]

Brave Browser works (Chromium)

[kappuchino]

Karma farming?

[Hizonner]

Google Chrome has been disabled.

[bttrpll]

works on Brave Browser