The technical reason was that uBlock Origin uses the "Manifest V2" extension interface. The new "Manifest V3" standard ever-so-coincidentally doesn't provide the tools necessary for thorough ad-blockers like UBO.

You should switch to a browser that maintains support for good ad-blockers.

Use Firefox and uBlock Origin. It always worked best on Firefox anyway:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

While some here don't seem to like it, instead of replacing uBlock O, I suggest replacing Chrome with Brave.

Chrome is removing some features that Origin depends on now. There's Ublock lite or moving to Firefox to keep using Origin.

If the DoJ manages to make Google sell Chrome before the new administration, will that stop this disaster?

The removal can be bypassed until June 2025: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809698

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178

Anyone have a recipe for running pihole on one’s laptop and proxying traffic through it? One you’ve used and can endorse pls. I too can Google. :)

As nobody has linked to it jet https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/... That is the v3 manifest version of uBlock origin by the same author.

In my couple week usage it's the same in blocking as uBlock Origin.

The move to the API seems motivated more by keeping the ad profitability model up than being about technical/security reasons. While I'm glad we're not in the IE4 vs. web standards days anymore, with Edge now also being on Chromium-base, there's too many interests in that one hot spot. How did the old saying go? Power corrupts, absolute power ...

I just use brave now. Comes with decent ad blocking out of the box.

Stop using Chrome if possible. Use Firefox.

uBlock origin lite.