Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

ggm

Does Brave track or does Brave fork on this?

dotcoma

Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)

rwmj

Surprised they still have this page on their site: > https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/ > 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. > 6. You can make money without doing evil.

itskamran

This feels more like a gradual tightening of extension APIs under Manifest V3 than a sudden “kill switch.” uBlock isn’t going away, but its capabilities are definitely being reshaped...

grishka

I wonder what will Vivaldi do. They say that their built-in content blocker is "good enough" that you supposedly don't need uBO (I very much disagree) but they also keep MV2 extensions working to this day.

userbinator

IMHO it's quite brave that a Google employee working in that area would let his real name be published, and an illuminating view of how they (don't) think.

bronlund

People still using that POS? :)

damnitbuilds

Boycott evil companies.

chinathrow

Look, we're having a good time on Firefox since November 9, 2004. Come join us!

geysersam

Finally Firefox will get a 30% usage share!

HerbManic

Just remember that Google is essentially an advertising company and that they were always going to squeeze this opening closed as soon as they could get away with it. I do fear for a future were even Firefox ends up caving in. Ladybird browser might be our only hope until something legal comes along to block functionality.

Balinares

AdGuard MV3 works fine. Still switch to FF if you can, more diversity in the ecosystem benefits everyone.

totetsu

uBo is the only reason I find browsing the web at all tolerable anymore. As a test I turned it off to view this article and almost crashed my browser with a dozen auto play video ads This would mean I would find the energy to get over anything that is holding me on chrome, like saved passwords etc.

topsykrates

I have been using UBlock Origin Lite on Chrome for a while, and while it's not perfect and needs a bit of manual tweaking here and there, it's been mostly good for me

TiredOfLife

uBlock Origin lite exists. And in couple years usage I see no difference from non lite version.

nullbio

The only reason I use Chrome is because its dev tools are better, and for whatever reason, webgl wigs out on Ubuntu 26.04 in Firefox. It's mostly the lag issue though...

jon_adler

Yet another reason to also perform ad blocking at the network level (e.g. DNS). I’ve found AdGuard Home very easy to maintain. Using Firefox and Orion browsers too.

danslo

>from our experience, uBO Lite does not seem to be as good as the original non-Lite version In what way? I've never noticed a difference.

Stevvo

uBlock Origin Lite gives an identical browsing experience, ad-free. What is all the fuss about?

RockstarSprain

AdGuard works fine for me, on YouTube as well.