yoasifOct 17, 2024

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is... #firefox #chromium #brave #vivaldi

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2024/10/16/google-is-killing-uBlock-origin-no-chromium-browser-is-safe.html

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

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Show threaddadarobot

Honest question here, since chromium (vs chrome) is open source, can someone not fork an older version, or remove the new code blocking ublock?

I mean i assume it cant be done, but i dont know why

Oct 17, 2024 at 5:21pmWeb
Show thread4z01235Oct 17, 2024
It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.
Show threadhelenslunchOct 17, 2024
And you have to know that if anyone actually tried, they would dedicate their infinite resources to making that as difficult as humanly possible.
Show threadNotMyOldRedditNameOct 17, 2024

Google: We changed a color

Fork Developer: they changed a color and it caused 50,000 breaking changes that a diff tool can’t handle automatically wtf.

Google: sorry wrong color here’s a new one

Fork developer: another 100,000 breaking changes that a diff can’t handle?!?!

Show threadcumOct 18, 2024
Also all the ad blocking extensions would have to continue maintaining forks of their own projects for increasingly obscure manifest V2 Chromium browsers.
Show threadhelenslunchOct 17, 2024
I don’t know why either. What I do know is that most Chromium browsers that are not Chrome have ad-blocking built into the browser itself using the same strategies as uBo but not reliant on Mv2 or Mv3 because they’re not extensions.