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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: 0.213s | 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. zamadatix ◴[16 Oct 24 03:54 UTC] No.41855447[source]▶
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.