Google's Manifest V3 platform is clobbering many popular extensions. Here's why and what you can do about it.
  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    71·
    1 month ago

    One of my co-workers switched to UBlock Lite instead of UBlock Origin and now the ads are back.

    Now he’s working on switching to a non-Google browser.

    Good job, Google. You have killed Google for yet another former customer.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    I don’t have any chrome extensions because I don’t use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Yeah they essentially killed about half the extensions I use. I have to use the browser for work.

  • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
    3·
    1 month ago

    This is the list, for those who don’t want to read it. I don’t see Adguard Adblocker on there, surprisingly or SponsorBlock. Besides UBlock Origin, which is a staple extension of mine for all browsers and we’ve long knew about Google’s approach to that. I haven’t seen a lot of what I use/used on here. I don’t even know most of these.

    360 Ads Blocker
Adblock Fast
Awesome Bookmarks Button
Block Ads
Bookmark All
Bookmark It
Bookmark Lock
Bookmark Manager Speed Dial
Bookmark My Tabs
Comodo Ad Blocker
Comodo Online Security Pro
Content Blocker
Delicious Bookmark Bar Sync
Domain Blocker
Ethical AdBlock -- Ad Blocker
Fast Bookmark
Ghostery Private Search for Chrome
Google Ad Blocker
Google Privacy Shade
Hover Zoom+
Little Bookmark Box
Location Guard
MalwareAI Browser Security
Pinboard Bookmark Bar Sync
Popup Fixer
Privacy Cleaner
Privacy Extension
Private Bookmarker
Private Bookmarks
Simple Site Blocker
Touch VPN
Trump Blocker
TunnelBear Blocker
Website Blocker
Wikipedia Popup
YouTube Anywhere Remote
    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I don’t know if it’s related, but an extension we use at work called Redirector was just disabled a few weeks ago for being “unsupported.” It’s the only reason I even used Chrome, so I guess I can go back to Safari. At home I only use Firefox.

  • LinyosT@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    The sad thing is that people will see this and still try to find a way to keep using chrome instead of just moving to a browser that actually respects them.

  • Sliversun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Glad that I moved to firefox 4 months ago and then to zen browser last week to avoid plugins removal. Haven’t looked back

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      So, the elephant in the room is Chrome killing ad-blocking.

      I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking.

      https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

      As of February:

      Chrome: 66.3%

      Safari: 17.99%

      Edge: 5.33%

      Firefox: 2.62%

      The software used to view the Web, in 2025, is really under the control of either Google or Apple.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        There’s always PiHole to block ads at the network level. It takes some setup and a raspberry pi but it can be one of the cheaper ones. And I’m pretty sure the sites aren’t going to do much more than check the User Agent to get the browser so User Agent Switcher will get around 99% of that.

        You could, I suppose, block Firefox in other ways (like maybe checking for some random Chromium feature not yet supported in Firefox) but Firefox isn’t usually far behind Chrome so it would almost take an entire new developer to be effective. And there’s probably ways around that too. (I’m a web developer but have never worked on an ad-supported project and never will so I’m not sure but life finds a way.)

      • riot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking

        An argument could also be made that Firefox and its forks have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue won’t want to deal with the extra work of keeping those users out.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Yeah I only run chrome for Microsoft teams which I unfortunately still have to use.

    The other day I saw a list of like 20 plugins, about 90% of what I have installed, banned. Not that I ever want chrome back but WTF?