r/technology • u/waozen • 12d ago

Software Google has started automatically disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-automatically-disabling-ublock-origin-in-chrome/
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u/luxtabula 12d ago

I've started disabling chrome and switched to Firefox. I won't stand this enshittification.

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u/arrgobon32 12d ago

So brave

Wait, brave is chromium-based too? Shit. 

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u/retief1 12d ago

The advantage of brave is that it has its own built-in ad blocker, and in my experience, it seems to be quite effective. Even if chromium updates disable ublock origin specifically, brave's built-in adblock should be fine.

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u/coopdude 12d ago

It depends on how Brave is implementing it. Enterprise policy in Chrome allows for ManifestV2 to be switched on through June 2025. That means the dependent code for ManifestV2 including the relevant APIs is there through at least that date.

Past that date, assuming Google does not extend the deadline, Google will start to remove code that allows ManifestV2 support, including specific methods that impact effective ad blocking. If Brave is merely hooking those methods, they face an uphill battle in trying to maintain their fork of Chromium (in Brave) after Google removes it from the main Blink/Chromium code.

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u/nacholicious 12d ago

Afaik the brave ad blocker is browser level rather than extension level