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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: 0.202s | 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. extraduder_ire ◴[16 Oct 24 10:27 UTC] No.41857492[source]▶
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.