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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 alle pledged to reatain full Manifest V2 compatibility in their browsers.
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 alle pledged to reatain full Manifest V2 compatibility in their browsers.


Incidents affecting all of the product line/company's products can be found in the prouct line/company article: [[Product line title]]/[[Company article title]]
Incidents affecting all of the product line/company's products can be found in the prouct line/company article: [[Product line title]]/[[Company article title]]