Google automatically disables uBlock Origin on Google Chrome: Difference between revisions
Added more clarity to the Manifest V3 (which is standard form) and MV3 (which is the shortened form that is consistently used in the rest of the article. Then some extra external and internal links for clarity and ease of study for a layman. Then I added a small portion in the consumer response section, citing EFF as the primary source. |
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{{Placeholder box|Summary and key issues of prevailing sentiment from the consumers and commentators that can be documented via articles, emails to support, reviews and forum posts.}} | {{Placeholder box|Summary and key issues of prevailing sentiment from the consumers and commentators that can be documented via articles, emails to support, reviews and forum posts.}} | ||
There are doubts that MV3 | There are doubts that MV3 does much for the security, since "when a malicious extension sneaks through the security review process, it is usually interested in simply observing the conversation between your browser and whatever websites you visit"<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Barnett |first=Daly |date=9 December 2021 |title=Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening#MV3quotes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250727115638/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening#MV3quotes |archive-date=27 Jul 2025 |access-date=16 Aug 2025 |work=Electronic Frontier Foundation}}</ref>. And to quote Firefox’s Add-On Operations Manager: "they can still do that with the current webRequest API that is not blocking".<ref name=":0" /> | ||
Users can still browse the web without ads and with reduced tracking by switching to a browser which continues to support Manifest V2 and the full version of uBlock Origin, such as [https://www.getfirefox.com Mozilla Firefox] or the Chromium-based [https://brave.com/ Brave]. | Users can still browse the web without ads and with reduced tracking by switching to a browser which continues to support Manifest V2 and the full version of uBlock Origin, such as [https://www.getfirefox.com Mozilla Firefox] or the Chromium-based [https://brave.com/ Brave]. |