CompleteGlobalSaturation
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I invite you all to join the Firefox master race.
Let me know when it supports HDR. Till then its a lacking product.I invite you all to join the Firefox master race.
Let me know when it supports HDR. Till then its a lacking product.
"YouTube is not hiding the skip button. On skippable ads, the button appears after 5 seconds into playback, as always. To allow users to focus on the video creative and make the player more seamless with YouTube content, we are reducing elements on the ads player. In doing so, viewers can engage more deeply with the ad through a cleaner experience."
Once they get that I'll likely switch, but its insane how long they've went without it.Currently in development:
1902427 - (hdr-video-windows) [meta] Add HDR video playback support on Windows
NEW (nobody) in Core - Audio/Video: Playback. Last updated 2025-07-14.bugzilla.mozilla.org
According to recent user reports, uBlock Origin is quickly disappearing from the Chrome Web Store. The official page for the ad-blocking extension now states that it is unavailable because it doesn't comply with Chrome's "best practices" for add-ons. However, we can confirm that the page is still accessible from our EU Windows client.
For those who already have uBlock Origin installed, Chrome now displays a warning that the extension is becoming obsolete. Google introduced Manifest V3 in 2018, claiming it would replace Manifest V2 in the Chromium project due to its supposedly enhanced security features.
Man what a bunch of shit. The only small amount of solace I have is that there must have been a boardroom of people absolutely seething at uBlock for years and crying/pissing their pants about lost ad revenue, to cause them to go this hard on them.![]()
Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store
According to recent user reports, uBlock Origin is quickly disappearing from the Chrome Web Store. The official page for the ad-blocking extension now states that it is...www.techspot.com
Man what a bunch of shit. The only small amount of solace I have is that there must have been a boardroom of people absolutely seething at uBlock for years and crying/pissing their pants about lost ad revenue, to cause them to go this hard on them.
I'd like to hope that Chrome specifically would see a huge loss of downloads/users, but the realist in me knows that the average person is too uninterested/savvy enough to know what's going on.
Hope the antitrust case keeps gaining steam.
Current Chrome/Chromium versions (starting 129.0.6668.101 for some and increasingly on 131+) started disabling access to uBO through the Chrome Web Store.
The CWS access can be restored by enabling an enterprise policy. You can also try sideloading uBO instead.
This will give you access to uBO until June/July 2025 when subsequent browser updates will remove the manifest v2 framework entirely and all extensions requiring it to function will simply disappear from your Chrome/Chromium.
You might be tempted to stop updating your browser then - please DON'T DO THAT - up-to-date browsers are your strongest security protection on the web. There is no point in keeping uBO on while leaving known holes in your browser open to attacks.
Of course NOT! Firefox has stated they have no current plans for removing the mv2 framework and uBO will continue to receive the full support on that browser.
- Does this mean the end of the uBO project as a whole?
In fact, uBO works best on Firefox, so moving to it should improve your overall uBO experience.
If you really do want to stay on a chromium-engine browser, Brave plans to keep the mv2 framework for as long as feasible for just a handful of extensions - including uBO. A separate setting already exists, but for now still installs from the chrome webstore. Be careful though - disabling the setting currently offers no warning and will remove uBO (and your config).
From other officially supported chromium-engine browsers by the uBO project Edge has not updated their removal timeline yet, so it's possible it might last a little bit longer... Or not - the next 7 or so months might be enough time for them to make up their mind. Also, Opera has recently stated they plan on letting you use uBO.
Unfortunately, you'll have to say farewell to the full uBO project (or similar extensions). Your only choice will be installing the less powerful mv3 iteration of your favorite content blocker, e.g. uBOL (uBlock Origin Lite), which should still be enough for most users.
- I'm not able to change browsers because my device is managed by my school/company (or I simply don't want to change browsers). What can I do?
- TL;DR - officially uBO supported browsers
- Firefox - uBO is most powerful in it. It will continue to work.
- Chrome/Chromium - started removing uBO from the webstore, add a policy (or install manually) to extend support till June 2025.
- Edge - removal timeline unspecified yet.
- Brave - policy currently enabled by default. Will let you install uBO + a few other extensions through a special setting afterwards.
- The setting is still in development so tread carefully - disabling it removes uBO entirely.
- Opera - plans to let you keep uBO.
Never understood why really. I wont have it near my hardware.Do people seriously use Chrome as their main browser?
Never understood why really. I wont have it near my hardware.
For me, I'm using Brave, so it's still working for me. And it's probably still going to work.
But for other Chromium browsers, it might be time to change to something else, like Firefox or Brave.
Please don't use Opera, that one if full of Chinese malware and spyware.
I recommend Librewolf, it comes with uBlock out of the box and is already configured for privacy. If you rely on session tokens and webgl you will have to disable some of its anti-fingerprinting settings, however.
If you want a semblance of automatic updates for Librewolf I recommend installing through a package manager like winget or chocolatey. When it's all set up you can have a batch file that runs the update command.Librewolf is an excellent solution for a quick solution with all privacy settings. Highly recommended.
The only problem is that updates are a couple of days delayed, compared to Firefox. And it requires manual updates. But this is just nitpicking, compared to the advantages of a browser that is properly configured out of the box.
I also tried Firefox+Arkenfox a month ago. But it was a pain to setup and manage.
Whatever it is, it now no longer works for me. Bye bye chrome.
They deleted it entirely from the Chrome Web Store. It's Joever bros...
Unless you just reinstall it directly from the Github lmao
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Releases · gorhill/uBlock
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlockgithub.com
Be aware that Chrome 140 or 141, scheduled for early August, will completely remove Manifest v2
When that happens, uBlock Origin can no longer work period because Manifest v2 is gone
If you insist on staying with Chrome, you will need to use uBlock Origin Lite which is Manifest v3. For most people this will be fine, it works almost as well. For people with specific needs on certain websites or lots of custom filters, your run with Chrome has ended
Brave and Opera have stated they will continue to support Manifest v2 for as long as it's in the Chromium codebase
Unironically Microsoft Edge will also still support Manifest v2 for the indefinite future. MS probably sees an opportunity to steal market share from Google lmao
Last but not least, there's Firefox. Personally I think Firefox sucks, it's slow and bloated and buggy and Gecko still breaks too often on sites designed for Chromium which is 99.9999999999% of web sites. There's a reason why Firefox market share has asymptotically approached zero for a decade now. But uBO will work forever on Firefox so there's that I guess
Ah, good to know the exact scheduleWith 139, V2 is disabled by default, but can still be enabled with flags.
With 140, which was released a few days ago, these flags no longer work. But we can still use the method of loading unpacked extension for mv2.
With 142, the loading unpacked method mv2 will be gone as well.
Ah, good to know the exact schedule
I'm on the loading unpacked method for now, sometime in August I'll probably find myself trying out uBO Lite and see how it goes. If it doesn't work for something I use, I'll probably end up on Edge of all godforsaken things because Brave is shady as fuck and Opera is basically a dead browser walking
If you want a semblance of automatic updates for Librewolf I recommend installing through a package manager like winget or chocolatey. When it's all set up you can have a batch file that runs the update command.
If you manage most of your software through them (which I recommend for silent updates, especially if using chocolatey) you can set yourself up a script to update all programs then shutdown the computer.
I thought it didn't at first, but when I turned up the slider to max protection it worked with YT. Try doing that in the settings.Thank god to ublock origin lite, it doesn't work with yt but at least work with everything else.
I thought it didn't at first, but when I turned up the slider to max protection it worked with YT. Try doing that in the settings.
Been using it ever since google decided to be pain with the youtube ads. and chrome youtube ad blockers don't work very well.I invite you all to join the Firefox master race.
Is FF much faster than Chrome now?