Get the latest tech news
Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox
Manifesting a future where Firefox is more successful?
As spotted by Leopeva64, a regular leaker of browser-related info on X, there’s a change in the Canary (early test) build of Chrome whereby Google has entirely stripped away the ability to use Manifest V2 browser extensions, such as uBlock Origin, a popular ad blocker. We guess there’s a chance that this switch may not make the cut for release – as is the case with anything in testing – but given that Google has previously announced that it would be fully removing the option to run V2 extensions, it seems pretty certain that this move will be coming through to the stable version of Chrome probably very soon. One of the crucial twists with V3 is that it prevents the use of remotely hosted code – as a security measure – but this also means ad blockers can’t update their filter lists without going through Google’s review process.
Or read this on r/technology
