Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as part of its efforts to push users to Manifest V3-based extensions.

Google warned it's ending support for the Manifest V2 framework soon via the Chrome Web Store. This means uBlock Origin and other extensions that aren't Manifest V3 compliant won't be supported ...

That’s because uBlock Origin Lite has more limited filtering capabilities than uBlock Origin, as the Manifest V3 spec puts restrictions on the Declarative Net Request API used by ad-blocking ...

Manifest V3 limits the webrequest API that uBlock Origin relies on for advanced content blocking. Instead, it introduces a ...

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Popular extensions like uBlock Origin, which are based on the Manifest V2 framework, will encounter compatibility problems with Chrome’s transition to Manifest V3. Google Chrome is prompting ...

As noted by uBlock Origin’s Raymond Hill on X (formerly Twitter), Google Chrome has begun disabling and suggesting the removal of extensions that are not updated for Manifest V3, as of Oct. 14.

After that, uBlock Origin will likely stop functioning, and users will need to switch to a Manifest V3-based ad blocker like uBlock Origin Lite, AdGuard, or similar alternatives. // Related Stories ...

But developer Raymond Hill has made something of a protest against the more restrictive Manifest V3. Instead of updating the original uBlock Origin to be compliant, he’s created a second version ...

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As uBlock Origin still uses this older Manifest version, that's bad news for the ad blocker's existing 40 million users on Chrome. uBlock Origin Lite is a Manifest V3 compliant alternative, though ...