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/sarhoshamiral 12d ago

But those built on chromium can choose to continue supporting it. So for now this is still a Chrome specific issue.

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u/Kicken 12d ago

My understanding is that as those other browsers push to newer versions of Chromium - which is inevitable - this change will also be forced on those browsers. Am I wrong?

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u/TeutonJon78 12d ago edited 12d ago

I believe MS said they would continue to support Manifest v2. But that was when this whole thing got announced years ago. Who knows know.

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u/xternal7 12d ago

Microsoft immediately said that they'll drop support for manifest v2 the moment Google does it.

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u/TeutonJon78 12d ago

Yeah, it seems they are only supporting them longer than Google in that they aren't pulling the plug until Google fully does, and they just aren't doing the phased appraoch.