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Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin

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178 points elsewhen | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 21:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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pentagrama ◴[16 Oct 24 02:49 UTC] No.41855133[source]▶
> 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...

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1. avazhi ◴[16 Oct 24 03:04 UTC] No.41855202[source]▶
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.