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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

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[–] 450 points 5 months ago (40 children)

laughs in Firefox/Librewolf

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  • [–] 88 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    No worries, play store-recaptcha is coming for you too!

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    ?

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  • [–] 86 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    affects mobile the most obviously... but google's playbook is to basically have forced telemetry always and enforce integrity of their telemetry, and by extension advertising etc.

    https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/ - this just seems like an ok article for it, I did a simple web search and it came up, but others certainly exist if you dislike the source.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Looking forward to when they remove the old options & force PC users to scan reCAPTCHA QRs:

    β€œScan to verify you’re human” screenshot

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  • [–] 60 points 5 months ago* (9 children)

    Those sites will be dead to me :)

    QR codes are like the popups of days gone by. With incredibly few exceptions, I refuse to scan them. They are so easy to redirect for nefarious purposes, and you can’t easily inspect the url to know, assuming thats something you even do. Also my phone case covers the camera and it’s a bitch to get open so I’m very choosy with what gets camera time.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    On my phone I use URLCheck (available in f-droid). You set it as your default browser app, but instead of opening a browser, it opens a popup where you can see the URL, and use some useful tools like removing tracking parameters or automatically rewriting x.com to xcancel.com. The rewritten URL can then just be forwarded to your actual browser (or whatever app is set up to handle that particular URL).

    I still won't actually open random qr code URLs though, especially not ones from google.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    After doing that, do you have an option to select which application you want to run (browser, video player etc?)

    I use Open Link With, but would love to be able to edit the URL before.

    Edit: From the description I think it might do that. This is neat, thanks for the recommendation.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    ...just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

    Unfortunately, we're fighting an uphill battle here.

    We'd need government regulation "protecting privacy", instead they seem all too eager to concede that in a futile effort to " protect the children ".

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    …just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

    At which point they cease to be your favourites, I hope. There are so many alternatives in that space that only inertia keeps people using the Empire of Evil.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    ...just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

    Searching is already dead. Every search results in 200 Ai articles full of bullshit, even Qwant or DuckDuckGo.

    The corpo-web died already, y'all are just crying over the scraps.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    WTF? I don't think I will use any sure that will enable this?

    How does that prevent bots? Ther are massive phone farms, that can't scan QR?

    This only exists so they can link identity of your phone with your desktop computer.

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  • [+] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    For people who want an opinionated browser... Yes. They have sponsored shortcuts which cannot be disabled and they ghost out the option to in the settings. If you want to dig around the about:config and tweak things, fine, but I'd rather use a browser I can make my own. Librewolf is excellently bare bones.

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    FF support is getting worse and worse though.

    Barely any of the sites I use for work support FF.

    Laugh all you want but shit is a bit fucked.

    Ladybird is our last best hope and its barely a glimmer.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Fun fact: many sites that say that they don't support firefox lie, their sites usually support it but they never tested it or they deem firefox "less secure" or some bullshit, but with an useragent spoofer, they will work

    (Not all sites ofc)

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  • [+] -24 points 5 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I think you should read my reply again, slowly

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  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not talking about sites that claim not to support FF. I'm talking about sites that have broken features when visited in FF.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Do you have any example? Can you send any link? I never experienced those problems myself so i want to try

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Chrome is doing the same thing as Internet Explorer did by not following web standards. There are several websites I have used where the payment process or uploading process only worked in chrome.

    Again, this is a problem with chrome doing things that breaks consistency between browsers that are supposed to be following the same web standards.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Wait, what sites don't work in firefox?

    Yet to see one.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I've answered this so many times.

    Banks, my uni, accounting software I use at work.

    Its a well acknowledged and much discussed fact that the web is buggy with ff.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The MV3 support in firefox is even stricter than in Chrome. I found that chrome will let you sidestep CSP to make an HTTP request. Firefox won't.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I don't understand what you found, but firefox still supports the web request blocking API for Mv3 extensions, which is what ublock needs.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I was debugging one of my favourite extensions this week to figure out why it didn't work on firefox. It hadn't been updated in years, so something changed in firefox in the last few months.

    I assume the Chrome version still works. I'm not installing it.

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    [–] 325 points 5 months ago* (11 children)

    Pretty fucked up considering how much malware and scammy bullshit come though ads.

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  • [–] 195 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Yep, sorry but not sorry. Advertisements aren’t safe. The industry has been ruined by bad actors and it’s a shame, but also not my problem.

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  • [–] 134 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I worked in ads only a few months and learned how fucked that industry was. They're basically given license to just run scripts in your browser, sucking as much info as they can. The fact that it hasn't been regulated to hell is shocking, and truly a failure of all leaders.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Internet Browsers store way too much data and have waaaay too many permissions. It's sickening.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    not enough, what they want is personal data to mine. they cant do that in simple terms. meta, glassdoor, indeed , linkden,(plaid) tries to use convoluted mehtods to get you to give up more personal data than you normally would in order to access the rest of the site.(glassdoor and indeed has an additional reason to want you ridentiy)

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago*

    The whole industry is bad actors. The quaint, pastoral idea of actually advertising things you genuinely might want to know about is utterly beyond dead, it died the moment they realized they could use the same pipeline to harvest data and manipulate and control people. Using it for mere advertising is a waste of everyone's time and resources when they have an option so much more lucrative on the table.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Over 10 years ago someone at my office had their work PC and user drive encrypted with ransomware because of a bad ad injection from one of those job search sites. Thankfully it was limited to nothing critical and incremental backups restore the drive...but hopefully they found a good lead because they were canned.

    If they'd had a good ad blocker this would have been a non issue

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago

    I work in IT: Pretty much all the malware we deal with comes from ads. I've pitched making ad blocking standard but they never go for it, even though it's clear it would prevent an absolute shit ton of attacks. It's crazy!

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