If you have uBlock Origin, you might notice Chrome automatically disabling the extension.

Google Chrome has begun to phase out uBlock Origin. The developer of the free ad blocker, Raymond Hill, recently reposted a screenshot that shows Chrome automatically turning off uBlock Origin because it is “no longer supported.”

The change comes as Google Chrome migrates to Manifest V3, a new extension specification that could impact the effectiveness of some ad blockers. uBlock Origin has launched uBlock Origin Lite, which uses Manifest V3, in response to the transition. However, you have to manually install the extension because it’s “too different from uBO to be an automatic replacement,” according to a FAQ Hill that posted to GitHub.

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    28 days ago

    When I say “aren’t supporting” I mean “not testing”. These sites are broken.

    All Firefox forks in existence are merely soft forks. They’re not committing code, they just compile with different flags and configure.

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        28 days ago

        That link is talking about tabs?

        That’s just css. Every soft fork messes with that. You can yourself in user.css

        The big deal with tabs is getting UX right. It’s more about how it looks and whether it’s intuitive, rather than implementation.