Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
  • 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.
    • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
      107·
      4 months ago

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

      • sheogorath@lemmy.world
        182·
        4 months ago

        Thankfully, Firefox is open-source, so we can just use one of the forks, or perhaps Ladybird will be ready for general release by that time.

      • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        Firefox already adopted manifest V3 but specifically kept the features needed for adblockers

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      22·
      4 months ago

      YouTube isn’t playing on Firefox with Ublock for me either. I’ll need to go through and reinstall my extensions, but I couldn’t find the root cause so far, I’d just been using chrome with ublock for YouTube and Firefox for everything else.

      • Frellwit@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        Make sure jnn-pa.googleapis.com isn’t blocked anywhere in your network. It may perhaps be blocked in a filter list you have activated in uBO, DNS, VPN, Firewall, anti-virus, Firefox enhanced tracking protection, etc.