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Google, whose main business is online advertising, has discontinued support for browser extensions using the Manifest V2 standard. This renders advertising/tracking blockers such as uBlock Origin unusable and deactivates the corresponding plugins on update. Only versions with very limited blocking functionality remain usable. | Google, whose main business is online advertising, has discontinued support for browser extensions using the Manifest V2 standard. This renders advertising/tracking blockers such as uBlock Origin unusable and deactivates the corresponding plugins on update. Only versions with very limited blocking functionality remain usable. | ||
Users who wish to continue to use the web without their every step being traced by Google and other advertising syndicates have no other option but to switch to a different browser such as [[Mozilla]] Firefox or Vivaldi, which have | Users who wish to continue to use the web without their every step being traced by Google and other advertising syndicates have no other option but to switch to a different browser such as [[Mozilla]] Firefox or Vivaldi, which have all pledged to retain full Manifest V2 compatibility in their browsers. | ||
Incidents affecting all of the product line/company's products can be found in the | Incidents affecting all of the product line/company's products can be found in the product line/company article: [[Product line title]]/[[Company article title]] | ||
{{Placeholder box|* [[Example incident one]] (date): Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article). | {{Placeholder box|* [[Example incident one]] (date): Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article). | ||
* [[Example incident two]] (date): | * [[Example incident two]] (date): | ||