uBlock Origin forcefully disabled by Chrome

If only Ladybird development had taken off sooner. The best balance of {respectful defaults, security, privacy, extensibility} out of the top 5 browsers seems to be Brave[1] for now, which isn&#x27;t the most ideal situation.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eligrey.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;choosing-a-browser&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eligrey.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;choosing-a-browser&#x2F;</a>

You can turn it back on for another couple of months in the app settings.<p>Short, we need to ditch chrome, but what is best alternative?

This is just step 1 in googles plan to &#x27;fix&#x27; the mistake of the open web. Next up is DRM and web attestation.

Chrome with Ublock origin works through June 2025, via &quot;browsers using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will be exempt from any browser changes until June 2025&quot;. Discussion on how to enable: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41812638">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41812638</a>

What are the limitations of uBlock Origin Lite compared to the original extension?

Is there any kind of alternative to uMatrix in the ManifestV3 world? I&#x27;m assuming no. It&#x27;s just a shame that my browsing experience went to complete trash overnight. I&#x27;ll obviously be moving away from Chrome where I can, but not sure what to do with my Chromebook.

I feel like it should be mentioned that on the page that Chrome presents showing that the extension was removed they actively suggest installing UBO Lite. I&#x27;ll leave it up to the reader to decide what that says about Google, but it&#x27;s a pretty important detail that the original poster chose not to include.

Hardly news is it?<p>But here&#x27;s some recent discussion:<p><i>About Google Chrome&#x27;s &quot;This extension may soon no longer be supported&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43239774">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43239774</a>

Headline is a little misleading. &quot;Forcefully disabled&quot; is more accurate. This happened to me for uBlock and dozens of other extensions.<p>The top comment on that Reddit thread has the answer: &quot;You can still enable it. Not supported is a lie. It still works. On the extensions page you have to select &quot;Keep&quot; and then reconfirm. Then scroll down to the extension and click the slider. Then reconfirm AGAIN and then it will work&quot;

A dns based adblocker like nextdns.io can help to a large extent. It doesn&#x27;t block YouTube ads in my experience though

So anyway to backup chrome extensions and prevent updates? Still have several deprecated extensions with no alternative.

Glad I switched to Firefox years ago.

No surprise but tragic nonetheless.

What&#x27;s the reasoning behind this? Anyone working at Google care to share with us?

Mozilla literally chose the worst possible time to change the Firefox terms.<p>They could be scooping up disgruntled Chrome users, yet all they did was generate a load of negative noise.

Love all the work arounds - right click the button and inspect to undisable it, etc.<p>You can just install Firefox<p>But im scared of their bad privacy policy<p>But you’re logged into reddit, and you’re… using Chrome?<p>Why is FF the one app that you’re a privacy policy enthusiast when you couldn’t care less on every other app you’re using<p>Your mission is not to have invasive and possibly malicious ads then, like, Firefox does that. Its so weird to me why people make all these reasons to stay on Google Chrome when they allegedly hate it and its incredibly trivial to just use firefox

I&#x27;m surprised no one is mentioning Brave. They refuse to take Chrome&#x27;s change.

This all makes sense when you think of the money at stake. Reducing a block usage by even 10% is worth billions of dollars a year in revenue for Google

It doesn&#x27;t seem to be removed and the install button isn&#x27;t grayed out when using Brave: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;ublock-origin&#x2F;cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;ublock-origin&#x2F;cjpal...</a>