uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to uBlock Lite as Chrome flags the extension
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Google Chrome users with the uBlock Origin extension installed started noticing that the browser flagged the extension as "soon to be unsupported." Here is why this happens and what to do with it.

~~https://www.neowin.net/news/ublock-origin-developer-recommends-switching-to-ublock-lite-as-chrome-flags-the-extension/~~

EDIT: Apologies. Updated with a link to what gorhill REALLY said:

Manifest v2 uBO will not be automatically replaced by Manifest v3 uBOL[ight]. uBOL is too different from uBO for it to silently replace uBO – you will have to explicitly make a choice as to which extension should replace uBO according to your own prerogatives.

Ultimately whether uBOL is an acceptable alternative to uBO is up to you, it’s not a choice that will be made for you.

Will development of uBO continue? Yes, there are other browsers which are not deprecating Manifest v2, e.g. Firefox.

  • _haha_oh_wow_English
    82•4 months ago

    I recommend switching to another browser like Firefox or Librewolf.

    • @[email protected]English
      16•4 months ago

      I love Librewolf currently but I worry it’s going to stray too much from what it originally was like Waterfox and others ended up doing, and then end up randomly breaking compatibility with certain plugins or introducing other issues.

      Right now, Librewolf is the best way to experience Firefox. Will that still be the case in 5, 10, 15 years? That remains to be seen. I hope it’s still the best way to experience Firefox years from now. Having to change browsers every so often does suck tbh.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•4 months ago

        Those are jumping to Librewolf from Firefox, keep the following things in mind

        • It’s a privacy first, usability second browser
        • It’s not a browser for your grandparents. You have you take some steps to give it the same functionality as Firefox
        • Good news is it removes a lot of Mozilla cruft
        • Browser fingerprinting, which allows websites to recognize an individual user, is disabled on this browser. This feature greatly enhances privacy.
        • But it means it will ‘slightly’ break some websites. Nothing very serious but certain QoL features will be missing at first. Eg. When downloading a software, it can’t determine which OS you are using.
        • You can enable browser fingerprinting and get those QoL features back.

        Hope you have a good experience on Librewolf. I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and it’s fine.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•4 months ago

        Meh.

        Librewolf already breaks loads of websites with it’s fingerprinting resistance - just get used to turning it off.

        In any case, you already need a chromium fork handy for all the sites that just plain don’t support firefox any more. I’ve run in to weird issues in firefox that don’t arise in chromium several times in the last month. This is going to get much worse.

        As for changing browsers. I don’t care very much. I don’t use many browser features like bookmarks or passwords.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•4 months ago

          Which websites did you run into issues with Firefox? I haven’t had any issues with any websites. I do think you’re right that it’s probably going to get worse over time, but maybe not if more people make the switch to Firefox.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•4 months ago

            booking.com is the worst I’ve encountered. There’s a captcha type anti-bot thing that I can’t pass with firefox. I think it uses canvas.

            edit: another I use all the time is called echo360. It’s the platform my university uses to host lecture videos. The player just plain doesn’t work in firefox - blank screen.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•4 months ago

      hello, i have chosen to value your opinion above my own based on very shaky reasoning i will not be sharing

      I abandoned chrome for being too RAM-hungry when im playing games w the browser open

      i abandoned Internet Explorer for being too slow

      and i abandoned firefox for being too bloated and sluggish, but that was like 2010 and things change

      im currently using Opera but why do you choose firefox over its contemporaries?

      • @[email protected]English
        6•4 months ago

        Because it’s not based on chromium(blink web engine), there are two other well supported web engines which browsers can be based on, WebKit (Apple), and Gecko (Mozilla).

        At the end of the day, if it’s built on Blink, it’s liable to have Google break things they don’t like on the back end. Including ad blockers.

        Opera used to be built on it’s own web engine (presto) but since 2013 it’s been built on Blink.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•4 months ago

          that was a great summary, thank you

          trying to research such a broad topic was overwhelming

      • _haha_oh_wow_English
        4•4 months ago

        Firefox is open source and Opera is still based on Chromium (the engine for Chrome, same as Edge and a number of other browsers).

        For practical use, Firefox seems plenty fast on my devices including mobile.