Google Confirms They Will Disable uBlock Origin in Chrome Mid 2024
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Hopefully, the chrome spinoff browsers like Brave will be able to get around this. But better yet, I really hope it'll force people to have to use something other than Chrome. There's honestly no good browser out there from a "divest from the system" perspective. It's all FF and Chrome based which are both ultimately Google and leftist degen.
They won't. Slimjet (another Chrome variant) tried it a few years ago with some other cancerous change (forget which) and they could only keep it up for a short while before managing the desynchronised codebase became too burdensome. Retaining MV2 would be even worse.
That's what I figured. That means soon all browsers are going to become useless.
Nah, it's not that bad, yet.
a) Manifest v2 shutdown has been promised for years now Sure, it will come but Google has pushed it back several times already (though I'm sure it will come eventually)
b) Manifest v3 does hurt, yes. But you've got options of uBlock origin light, adguard, ghostery, and probably others to choose from for adblocking. Plus, unless the Brave browser shuts down entirely I'm sure they'll keep working on their shields and adblocking as much as possible.
c) There are browser alternatives. While Mozilla is pozzed, there are several good Firefox forks - Waterfox, Librewolf, Pale Moon, probably more. (Heck, not even sure I'd call Pale Moon a fork anymore as it has been 6-7 years since it was mostly different). And, though I am loathe for many reasons to give Apple anything, Safari is still it's own thing, not Chromium (though I've no idea of the extension availability on it).
d) People are indeed making their own browsers from scratch. Two I know of are Flow and Ladybird though again, no idea of the adblock functionality they will have.
e) PiHoles and similar exist, and while they do not stop things like in-line Youtube ads they do stop a lot of the most obnoxious ones.
f) If all else fails, we can all just go back to Lynx like it's 1993.
And probably more stuff. Will things change some, yes. But life finds a way.
It's no more pozzed than Google. Pozzed and allowing ad blockers is still better than pozzed and not allowing ad blockers. Hopefully something better will become available but I wouldn't fault anyone for switching to Firefox if ad blocking becomes impossible on all Chromium based browsers.