Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin

> uBlock’s own uBlock Origin Lite, which uses Manifest V3 and has received positive reviews on the Chrome Web Store. Still, the ad blocker’s developer Raymond Hill has said the Lite version can’t match the full capabilities of the original uBlock Origin.

To me the developer should update the current v2 version with the new approved v3 version. Yes, is worse but at the end of the day is better for those 40M of users [1]. I'm speculating but I think he don't want to show defeat, maybe some ego is involved there.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpal...

Why should the developer do that? So Google won’t lose users? So uBlock Origin won’t lose users?

In the end there are alternatives, like using Firefox. Saying the developer ‘should’ do something when you admit that something is worse than what he has going now is super weird.

Personally I think if Google wants to kill their browser engine for everybody who hates ads, we ‘should’ welcome it, because it will hopefully cause Chromium’s browser dominance to fade at least somewhat, and Google’s monopolising position in terms of browser market share is what enabled Google to make this Manifest 3 decision in the first place.

There's plenty to speculate or inquire about without jumping straight to assumptions about a stranger's personal motives. What about all of the users that haven't been flipped yet, all of the ones using Chrome based browsers still supporting v2 but using the Chrome Web Store for the extension at the moment, all of the users and corporations using ExtensionManifestV2Availability who won't be flipped for a year? Heck, maybe it's even a good thing users have Chrome tell them the old extension is expressly disabled so they can find out the limitations in the new one and chose for themselves rather than have their extension's functionality cut silently made for them.

I can't find the tweet, but gorhill himself has said that as well as ublock lite not being a drop-in replacement, there are other MV3 content blockers that could work better depending on what your usecase is. He doesn't want to just silently degrade user experience.