Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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windowscentral.com
  • Google is transitioning Chrome's extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
  • This means users won't be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
  • However, there's a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn't boast the original version's comprehensive ad-blocking features.
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Now they will be forced to look at ads.

I'm pretty sure they would've been seeing ads anyways. I doubt that school IT administrators had uBlock Origins as an extension that was being installed and I really doubt they didn't have the chromebooks locked down so students could install whatever extensions they wanted.

Good, smart IT would have installed ublock and locked that shit down. Saves bandwidth and protects the kids.

But you're probably right, most IT departments are useless.

Yeah, I'm not saying it's not a good practice, but I just don't see them doing it.

Don't think it saves bandwidth unless it's a DNS level block, which IT should also do but separately from uBO