{"id":10816,"date":"2025-02-22T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=10816"},"modified":"2025-02-22T10:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:51:04","slug":"google-chrome-disables-ublock-origin-for-some-in-manifest-v3-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/google-chrome-disables-ublock-origin-for-some-in-manifest-v3-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome Disables Ublock Origin for Some in Manifest V3 Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I believe that Ublock Origin still works on Brave which is based on Chromium, the base for Chrome. Though it’s a bit more work, I use the author’s Ublock Origin and uMatrix<\/a> with Firefox which gives me fine tuned controls on what is loaded with a website. There is a lot of unnecessary sites and elements that load with many websites, especially giving tracking information to sites like Fakebook… I also have my own Pi-Hole<\/a>\/Unbound<\/a> DNS servers that block a lot of ad, telemetry and tracking domains as well. Even my Mullvad VPN has it’s own very good blocklists<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/google\/google-chrome-disables-ublock-origin-for-some-in-manifest-v3-rollout\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Mayank Parmar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Google<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as part of its efforts to push users to Manifest V3-based extensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those unaware, Manifest V3 is Chrome’s latest extension specification<\/a> and is designed to limit extension access to user network requests, block developers from utilizing remote content, and improve overall performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Manifest V3 is supposed to benefit end users, it comes at the cost of functionality, as it imposes stricter limitations on browser extensions, particularly ad blockers and privacy-focused tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to this, some immensely popular Google Chrome extensions, like uBlock Origin, are now gradually being automatically turned off in users’ browsers worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just today, some of BleepingComputer’s devices found that uBlock Origin was automatically disabled, stating it was no longer supported. Our only options were to remove the extension or manage it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the first option removes the extension from Chrome, the second simply redirects you to the extensions page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google turns off uBlock Origin extension due to Manifest V3 rollout<\/strong>
Source: BleepingComputer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a Reddit thread<\/a> from yesterday, other Google Chrome users also pointed out that uBlock Origin and other unsupported extensions are now automatically being turned off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this does not appear to be the case for everyone, as some devices used by BleepingComputer continue to use uBlock without any issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google is gradually killing off Manifest V2 extensions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Google has previously told BleepingComputer that the disabling of Manifest V2 extensions is a gradual rollout process, which is why the extensions may still work for some users. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who need more time, Google will let the enterprise and certain users continue using Manifest V2 extensions until June 2025 through a special group policy<\/a>. For everyone else, the rollout of Manifest V3 is already in progress, and Chrome will keep encouraging users to move away from older extensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re affected by Google’s Manifest V2 deprecation, you can switch to Manifest V3-supported extensions, such as the uBlock Origin Lite<\/a> (uBOL), which the uBlock Origin developer has created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if you prefer uBlock Origin’s advanced filtering, you may find the Lite version too limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BleepingComputer emailed Google with questions about this gradual rollout, why it was done this way, and when the rollout will be completed. We will update the story if we receive a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe that Ublock Origin still works on Brave which is based on Chromium, the base for Chrome. Though it’s a bit more work, I use the author’s Ublock Origin and uMatrix with Firefox which gives me fine tuned controls on what is loaded with a website. There is a lot of unnecessary sites and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10817,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions\/10817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}