โฒ 970 โผ Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin (webiterate.dev) submitted 2 months ago by inari@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 214 comments fedilink hide all child comments ๐ก 1
[โ] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (7 children) Ublock Origin Lite still works on Ungoogled Chromium for me, at least. permalink fedilink source hideshow 7 child comments replies: [โ] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 8 points 2 months ago Yep, the lite version permalink fedilink source parent [โ] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child) The "Lite" version is what gorhill made to at least work with Manifest v3 as well as possible, though he does not like that he is limited to Googles filtering framework with it. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/mv3/description/en.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648131 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [โ] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* it seems to function ok. there are some additional filters that can be enabled in its settings, not much control though--just a setting for how 'aggressive' you want it to be. you cannot add your own, either. because filters are now bundled with the extension itself, updates to them are slower as they must be blessed by the addon store (chrome's, edge's) as part of an extension update, before being made available. and this does give google and microsoft absolute 'veto power' over a filter update. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] GeirGrusom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago Lite was made for Manifest V3. They had to drop a bunch of features to get it functioning which is why it's called "Lite". permalink fedilink source parent [โ] anon5621@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children) Ublock origin works on ugoogled chromium without any problem actually permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* It won't for long. Its only because Ungoogled Chromium is on a stable channel, but this removal will catch up to them soon. This goes for all Chromium browsers, except those that hack in their own adblock engine like Cromite or Brave. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Wait, type shit? I legit didn't know. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 8 points 2 months ago Yep, the lite version permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child) The "Lite" version is what gorhill made to at least work with Manifest v3 as well as possible, though he does not like that he is limited to Googles filtering framework with it. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/mv3/description/en.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648131 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [โ] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* it seems to function ok. there are some additional filters that can be enabled in its settings, not much control though--just a setting for how 'aggressive' you want it to be. you cannot add your own, either. because filters are now bundled with the extension itself, updates to them are slower as they must be blessed by the addon store (chrome's, edge's) as part of an extension update, before being made available. and this does give google and microsoft absolute 'veto power' over a filter update. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* it seems to function ok. there are some additional filters that can be enabled in its settings, not much control though--just a setting for how 'aggressive' you want it to be. you cannot add your own, either. because filters are now bundled with the extension itself, updates to them are slower as they must be blessed by the addon store (chrome's, edge's) as part of an extension update, before being made available. and this does give google and microsoft absolute 'veto power' over a filter update. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] GeirGrusom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago Lite was made for Manifest V3. They had to drop a bunch of features to get it functioning which is why it's called "Lite". permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] anon5621@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children) Ublock origin works on ugoogled chromium without any problem actually permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* It won't for long. Its only because Ungoogled Chromium is on a stable channel, but this removal will catch up to them soon. This goes for all Chromium browsers, except those that hack in their own adblock engine like Cromite or Brave. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Wait, type shit? I legit didn't know. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* It won't for long. Its only because Ungoogled Chromium is on a stable channel, but this removal will catch up to them soon. This goes for all Chromium browsers, except those that hack in their own adblock engine like Cromite or Brave. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Wait, type shit? I legit didn't know. permalink fedilink source parent