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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

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[–] 87 points 3 months ago (14 children)

affects mobile the most obviously... but google's playbook is to basically have forced telemetry always and enforce integrity of their telemetry, and by extension advertising etc.

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/ - this just seems like an ok article for it, I did a simple web search and it came up, but others certainly exist if you dislike the source.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Looking forward to when they remove the old options & force PC users to scan reCAPTCHA QRs:

    “Scan to verify you’re human” screenshot

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  • [–] 65 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

    Those sites will be dead to me :)

    QR codes are like the popups of days gone by. With incredibly few exceptions, I refuse to scan them. They are so easy to redirect for nefarious purposes, and you can’t easily inspect the url to know, assuming thats something you even do. Also my phone case covers the camera and it’s a bitch to get open so I’m very choosy with what gets camera time.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    On my phone I use URLCheck (available in f-droid). You set it as your default browser app, but instead of opening a browser, it opens a popup where you can see the URL, and use some useful tools like removing tracking parameters or automatically rewriting x.com to xcancel.com. The rewritten URL can then just be forwarded to your actual browser (or whatever app is set up to handle that particular URL).

    I still won't actually open random qr code URLs though, especially not ones from google.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    After doing that, do you have an option to select which application you want to run (browser, video player etc?)

    I use Open Link With, but would love to be able to edit the URL before.

    Edit: From the description I think it might do that. This is neat, thanks for the recommendation.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    ...just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

    Unfortunately, we're fighting an uphill battle here.

    We'd need government regulation "protecting privacy", instead they seem all too eager to concede that in a futile effort to " protect the children ".

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    …just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

    At which point they cease to be your favourites, I hope. There are so many alternatives in that space that only inertia keeps people using the Empire of Evil.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    ...just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

    Searching is already dead. Every search results in 200 Ai articles full of bullshit, even Qwant or DuckDuckGo.

    The corpo-web died already, y'all are just crying over the scraps.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    WTF? I don't think I will use any sure that will enable this?

    How does that prevent bots? Ther are massive phone farms, that can't scan QR?

    This only exists so they can link identity of your phone with your desktop computer.

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