This Is Why Your Ad Blocker No Longer Works on Chrome

This Is Why Your Ad Blocker No Longer Works on Chrome

It appears that Chrome's ad blocker kill switch might finally be flipped with an update coming this summer.

Google Chrome Gets an Official Downgrade as Ad Blocking Workaround Gets Axed

Effective from Chrome version 150, scheduled for June 30th, Google is removing the final technical workaround that allowed effective ad blockers to function in the browser. This downgrade involves deleting a hidden setting known as the `ExtensionManifestV2Disabled` flag. Power users depended on this toggle to keep older extensions operational after Google officially discontinued support for … Read more "Google Chrome Gets an Official Downgrade a…

Google is closing the door on ad-blockers in Chrome, other browsers

Google is closing a loophole in Chrome that allowed people to continue using older, more effective ad-blockers.

Chrome users are losing their best ad-blocker

TL;DR Chrome has removed the workarounds that allowed users to install Manifest V2 extensions such as uBlock Origin. uBlock Origin is no longer available to install from the Chrome Web Store. Chromium-based browsers can choose to support MV2 extensions, but it remains to be seen whether they will continue doing so in the long run. A few years ago, Chrome started working towards deprecating Manifest V2 in favor of Manifest V3. This meant that ex…

The end of ad blockers is here because of Google Chrome

Google Chrome's update to Manifest V3 for extensions is about to bring an end to many ad blocker tools, as reported by 9 to 5 Google. Google is bringing an end to Manifest V2 and with it, popular ad blockers such as uBlock Origin are coming to an end as well. This will also impact other Chromium-based browsers, but other browsers may continue supporting these, if they so choose. But Microsoft Edge and Opera are likely to follow Chrome's example…