Google purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from Chrome Web Store Migration from Manifest V2 extensions is speeding up Oct.14, 2024

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I wonder, could the extension still be added manually? I've always installed via Chome/Firefox extensions and the click of a button; but surely one could deploy these extensions manually provided their creators give access to the source?
 
Since Google is the boss of Mozilla I wonder how long it will take to purge it from Firefox too. There is no way to let Firefox have functional ad blockers and Chrome do not have them. The word will travel quickly to the not tech savvy users and there will be migrations to Firefox, there's no way they let that happen
 
Terminal Velocity said:
Since Google is the boss of Mozilla I
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Where did you get that idea,
I quote
"The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird mail server"
 
Note that the comments below the article are well worth a read as well.
 
As far as know Google pay them all up there at Mozilla and he who pays is the boss, time will tell
 
Yes, Gooble gives them money. So in a sense, they are their boss. Whether Gooble pressures them about ad-blockers or not, time will tell. And anyway, most users of Chrome and its clones (they're not really forks) will get along just fine with uBo Light.
 
I highly suspect someone will just host an unofficial add-ons store and just fork Chromium if it get dire. AFAIK, Brave is based on Chromium, too, so that leaves Firefox (at least on Linux).
With Firefox, it's very unlikely Google can buy Mozilla off because this is Mozilla's chance to take back a massive amount of the market share of disgruntled Chromium users. Mozilla would be pretty stupid not to use this opportunity to become Number #1.
 
It won't be too difficult to switch to another Chromium-based browser, presumably one that's a real fork and doesn't incorporate this change.
 
Those who have already installed uBlock Origin on a Chrome-based browser don’t think they have any problems unless they reinstall the browser. In any case this is yet another cowardly of Google.
Google is the evil.
 
hacktheworld said:
Those who have already installed uBlock Origin on a Chrome-based browser don’t think they have any problems unless they reinstall the browser. In any case this is yet another cowardly of Google.
Google is the evil.
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you really thought a data mining company that make billions of dollars from advertising wasn't going to join the wrong side of the war on rampant advertising? It is a smart decision on their part, although not popular which we hope will harm them. But think of the people in the world now... SHEEP. They will take and do as told.

Think of the movie Minority Report.... Look at how that advertising went and people just were fine with it. They had the future down pretty good in that movie.
 
github.com

About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"

This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin - uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues
github.com github.com

"Ultimately whether uBOL is an acceptable alternative to uBO is up to you, it's not a choice that will be made for you"
.. and it's not a choice you make, you're forced because Ublock Origin will no longer be available because of Google.
 
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APTI said:
you really thought a data mining company that make billions of dollars from advertising wasn't going to join the wrong side of the war on rampant advertising? It is a smart decision on their part, although not popular which we hope will harm them. But think of the people in the world now... SHEEP. They will take and do as told.

Think of the movie Minority Report.... Look at how that advertising went and people just were fine with it. They had the future down pretty good in that movie.
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I haven’t seen the Minority Report. I agree with you on many things but not that it’s a smart decision by Google.
 
ron.alan said:
If one exists, I don't know about it.
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There are some that have features not found in Chromium or Chrome, so we might call them forks. They're not hard forks where they fork it and do their own thing but soft forks where they take new Chromium releases and make their changes to the code.

That's not dissimilar to the vvrious Linux projects, such as Mint, Elementer, and even Ubuntu.
 
KGIII said:
It won't be too difficult to switch to another Chromium-based browser, presumably one that's a real fork and doesn't incorporate this change.
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There is no Chrome-based browser where you can install uBlock Origin when it will be no longer available, at least for now.
 
hacktheworld said:
There is no Chrome-based browser where you can install uBlock Origin when it will be no longer available, at least for now.
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You should be able to grab it from Ray's GitHub repo and load it yourself. His stuff is all open source. (I once forked uMatrix but I got preemptively lazy.)

Also, there's at least one (Opera) with its own extension infrastructure - and I think Edge may also have their own. So, there's hope...
 
Must one be worried to loose the publicity blocking feature(s) in Gnome Web/Epiphany and Pale Moon?
 
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