We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the …

    • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      You’re right, I found it here. I thought it was based on uBlock because there’s a UI somewhere in Brave for ad blocking that is suspiciously close to uBlock’s UI for blocking specific elements on a site.

      • Deanne@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        there’s also a phyton library that lets you use brave’s adblocker on other browsers like qutebrowser

    • festnt@sh.itjust.works
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      19 days ago

      oh, thx for saying. i also thought it was based on ublock, though im not sure where i got that information from