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Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good

88 points by doener

by MrAlex94

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Developer of Waterfox here - if anyone is looking for other options just know Waterfox will carry on allowing extensions to access the browsers own privileged JavaScript APIs, not just MV2 or MV3 APIs - so you’re free to do whatever you like within the browser

by _345

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I moved to Firefox as soon as they began threatening uBlock Origin support and people started switching to Lite, I find it silly that people were tweaking their registries just to stay on a sinking ship for a few more months lol.

by marssaxman

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As far as I'm concerned, this means "Google is finally killing [...] Chrome for good". The web is intolerable without adblocking.

by onemoresoop

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What else can we expect from a browser made by an advertising company?

by anoyomoose

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One of the reasons I'm back to Firefox as daily driver. On mobile too.

by thisislife2

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It will be interesting to see how the Chromium clones like Vivaldi and Brave hold up. I know they have stated that they will continue to support MV2 ... but talk is easy. Many of these clones depends on Google search revenues, so it remains to be seen if they "walk the talk".

by 0xblinq

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Just use Brave. For me internet is unusable without it.

by zipityzi

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It mentions Edge is also losing MV2: is it? Any source after the 2024 Neowin article that an Edge Canary build 16 months ago disabled UBO?
No issues with UBO on Edge 149 (stable) and it's still available on the Edge Add-ons (it was featured by Microsoft, funnily enough, a few months back):
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-ori...
Did I miss something? Microsoft's official statement is that "The Microsoft Edge team is currently in the process of updating this MV3 migration timeline". Now, they've been working on that timeline since at least May 2025, so maybe with Chromium 150 / 151, they'll make it more concrete?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions/...

by HelloUsername

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Related: "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471970 10-jun-2026 423 comments

by onel

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My fix for this is really a bad idea: I'm on Ubuntu and I just pinned the Google Chrome version before they deprecated the API If a huge security bug is found, I might need to update

by Shorel

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I block ads at the OS DNS level.
No browser can load these ads.

by inigyou

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Didn't they do this years ago? What happened to that?

by tim333

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I'm using uBlock lite. Works fine.

by ChrisArchitect

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[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471970

by mid-kid

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