Use Firefox and uBlock Origin. It always worked best on Firefox anyway:<p><a href="https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox">https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...</a>
The technical reason was that uBlock Origin uses the "Manifest V2" extension interface. The new "Manifest V3" standard ever-so-coincidentally doesn't provide the tools necessary for thorough ad-blockers like UBO.<p>You should switch to a browser that maintains support for good ad-blockers.
The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manifest_v2_phaseout_begins/l6cuqzg/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...</a>
AFAIK there are no Chrome uBlock alternatives, while there is a Chrome alternative with uBlock, Firefox. Beside that, you can set<p><pre><code> "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" = 3;
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as see <a href="https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/" rel="nofollow">https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/</a> apparently till June 2025 to keep Manifest v2 extensions like uBlock fully working, I've rebuilt my NixOS with Chromium this morning and uBlock was there so it's not removed at least if you have the aforementioned option set.
As nobody has linked to it jet
<a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...</a>
That is the v3 manifest version of uBlock origin by the same author.<p>In my couple week usage it's the same in blocking as uBlock Origin.
The move to the API seems motivated more by keeping the ad profitability model up than being about technical/security reasons. While I'm glad we're not in the IE4 vs. web standards days anymore, with Edge now also being on Chromium-base, there's too many interests in that one hot spot. How did the old saying go? Power corrupts, absolute power ...
More discussion:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809698">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809698</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178</a>