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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
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  • Google is transitioning Chrome's extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
  • This means users won't be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
  • However, there's a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn't boast the original version's comprehensive ad-blocking features.
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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd just like to reassure everybody that you can quit using Google Chrome. I switched to Firefox a year ago. You can switch to something else too. Give it a try.

Wait, I don't need to nudge anybody. After all the ads start invading their browsing experience I doubt anybody will need much prodding.

[–] echo@lemmings.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep... when ublock quits working for me on Chrome then I will migrate.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why wait? Migrate now. There's even Firefox for mobile with ublock

[–] chazwhiz@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is?

[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes my main mobile browser

[–] chazwhiz@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That doesn’t really answer my question. How does one get ublock origin on mobile?

[–] JohnSwanFromTheLough@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's an extensions menu in the firefox app, uBlock is listed as one of the recommend ones, all you have to do is click the plus sign to add it.

[–] Hobbes@startrek.website 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Not in mobile

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Everyone is leaving out that this is Android only.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

Yes in mobile

[–] veloxization@yiffit.net -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is Fennec, a fork of Firefox for mobile, though mobile Firefox has this same menu. c: Extensions are very much supported on mobile and it's great.

Though I should add: I'm not an iOS user, so the story is likely to be different there, Apple being Apple and whatnot.

A screenshot from an Android phone, showing Fennec, a Firefox fork, listing extensions, including uBlock Origin.

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

Yes there is lol

[–] oddsys@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

Yes, in mobile Firefox.

[–] megabat@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that even the United States FBI recommended using ad blocking extensions to protect yourself online.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Intrusive ads and...

MALWARE!

[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

If you're still using chrome at this point you're just asking for this shit

[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

"always do evil" ~Google

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Man, it's a shame there isn't a good alternative to Chrome based browsers :(

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Next week: Over 30 million users pull the plug on Chrome, leaving Google execs to make the surprised Pikachu face and wonder aloud why millennials hate web browsers.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just finished migrating to Firefox this year to prep for this. See Ya later Chrome! Give my regards to Netscape.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Susceptible to intrusive ads and viruses.

My Windows computer was infected more than once by virus spreading ads on legitimate websites. The site owners denied any responsibility for the viruses saying it was the fault and responsibility of the ad companies. Never again.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

FYI TELL YOUR LOVED ONES ABOUT THIS

If you are on here you're probably like me "the it guy of the family"

Mom and dad aren't going to switch themselves, remove chrome for them as the default install Firefox and tell them to use that unless something absolutely refuses to work. Pick your battles.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you are the IT guy just buy a raspberry pi or a cheap mini pc and install pi-hole at your parents place that you can access remotely. That way their entire network is blocked from ads and you can troubleshoot from anywhere.

[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And then it gets blamed every time something doesn't work right with the internet

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah that's what happened with my wife. Had to scrap PiHole because she didn't want to deal with it.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com -1 points 9 months ago

I gave my parents 3 "The internet stopped working so I reset the router"s before I stopped trying. If you can't follow the simplest instructions you're on your own. Enjoy your adds and paying for subscription services.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Firefox is the bomb.

[–] 2001aCentenaryofFederation@fedia.io 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

see also: librewolf

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 months ago

Yea, I'm just waiting for the bomb to go off when Mozilla inevitably ends up following Google's example.

[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Use Firefox. If something you use ABSOLUTELY needs Chromium yell at whoever makes the thing. If that still doesn't work use Brave. But then go back to Firefox for everything else.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Screw that. Use Firefox, but if you need Chrome, use brave, use Vivaldi, use Opera for all it mattwrs. Asanything that still works is fine.

This brave paranoia is just insane. You don't want crypto, don't use it. You don't trust brave use Vivaldi, but spreading fake fear is BS.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Brave altered URLs clicked to add their own affiliate links. Browsers should go to where you click. That's like their whole job. There are reasons to dislike Brave apart from crypto.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

4 years ago

Also Firefox sends all of your browser data to Google for safe browsing checks Right now.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Are you talking about this? They say it only calls out to get updated lists and when you actually arrive at a phishing page to check if the page is still marked as suspicious.

Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work#w_what-information-is-sent-to-mozilla-or-its-partners-when-phishing-and-malware-protection-is-enabled

Also, I agree it was 4 years ago. That's a fair point. To me it's super important and they've probably permanently lost my trust (or at least it's always going to be besmudged). If you believe they've changed in that time period (or it's not as critical to you) then that's fine.

For what it's worth, when I need a Chromium based browser because the site has a bug and won't work with Firefox my (current) go to is Brave. I use it on a semi regular basis because dndbeyond.com works poorly with Firefox. So every 2 to 4 weeks I use it for that.

[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even the FBI sent a warning imploring everyone use AdBlockers

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have said this in other threads about this issue in response to all the "use Firefox" comments.

Thousands upon thousands of school children are currently using Chromebooks they get from their schools. Now they will be forced to look at ads.

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're forced to look at ads anyway, as the IT dept blocks installing extensions

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The IT department at my daughter's school allowed me to install the uBlock Origin extension last year. Granted, some extensions (and websites for that matter, no PornHub) were blocked, but not that one.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm willing to bet you're the exception and not the rule. I can confirm from my own experience that we couldn't even alter the system settings of the individual device.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Altering system settings wasn't possible when I was in school, but browser settings weren't so locked down. Extensions were freely available to install on the school computers.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That wasn't the case for us, we couldn't download anything that didn't come pre-installed. If the teachers wanted to use a website that was blocked by the cartoonishly restrictive web filter they had to wait upwards of a week because all of the IT was done by one guy who was also a teacher.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Our IT team was pretty cool I think.

I had a technology class when I was there that only had 6 students in this little computer lab in the back of the cafeteria. There were way more computers than than students though, so the few of us that were there started unplugging monitors from the unused computers next to us and giving our computers multiple monitors. We couldn't rearrange the monitors since they were physically attached to the tables, and they couldn't be reordered in Windows since system settings were locked, so we just had to remember that to get to the left monitor we'd actually have to move the mouse to the right for example.

Not even a week later, someone from IT showed up to check on things. We thought that would be it for our multi-monitor setups and they'd make us put them back, but not a beat was missed between them noticing what we had done, realizing that the monitors were in the wrong order, and offering to fix it for us in the settings.