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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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[-] TotalSonic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Helium is a Chromium based browser that will still support ad blockers, whose devs (unlile the CEO of Brave) seem like good peeps - https://helium.computer/

Besides Librewolf, Waterfox is also a good Firefox/Gecko basd option - https://waterfox.com/

[-] webkitten@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Vivaldi too

[-] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

this aged like milk - RIP vivaldi

[-] webkitten@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

For the record, you can re-enable it by toggling it but, yeah, it's not the best.

On the other hand, the built in tracker replicates most of UBO, especially if you enable Easylist or add your own filterlist subscriptions.

[-] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks, I'll look into the lists I guess. My main complaint is the element zapper however!

[-] webkitten@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that's definitely one area where it lacks. When you do add subscriptions, it will tell you which rules didn't match too (at least a count of them) but I've found MOST carry over.

(I do go between Librewolf/Firefox and Vivaldi so I'm not married to Vivaldi for the record)

[-] TotalSonic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I like the messaging I see from Vivaldi's ceo, and it looks like it has a nice feature set, but they still keep some parts of its code closed source, so I don't choose it for myself.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

+1 for librewolf as an actually privacy focused and hardened browser, waterfox as a bullshit-free "just works" browser

[-] coolansplanet@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

I didn't know about those, thank you TotalSonic!

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