Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

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    42 minutes ago

    Google is not killing uBlock Origin. It’s changing how Chrome works. uBlock Origin will continue to work in my Firefox and other browsers.

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    Turning off auto updates on chrome was convoluted. I assume everything will break when they force this update even with auto updates off.

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      It’s probably going to prevent security updates too and that’s worse than ad tracking.

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        43 minutes ago

        looking at the 4“ woman poledancing in the bottom right corner of my windows vista screen

        Huh?

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    Or use UBO-Lite? MV3 has some limitations but I’m tired of people acting like it ruins ad blocking when it doesn’t.

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      Afaik, UBO lite only updates filter lists when the extension updates, has no element zapper/picker, no per site switches, and no dynamic filtering.

      If you can live without these features, then good for you. But there’s no need to get frustrated about our claims just because we need better ad-blocking and privacy functions than you.

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          Interesting. I only got my Mac about a year ago and since then I’ve used AdGuard mainly because it’s the only good thing on iOS and I assumed uBlock Origin never was a thing for Safari.

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            It basically wasn’t. The original developer allowed a fork on platforms they weren’t interested in, drama ensued and eventually, the Apple thing happened anyway.

            uBlock became uBlock Origin once the "origin"al developer took over the project again.