uBlock Origin goes from Chromium-based browsers

johnraff · 2025-03-04 02:33:52

It looks as if Chromium and browsers based on it will no longer support uBlock Origin:
https://www.theverge.com/news/622953/go … anifest-v3

That leaves Firefox, basically.

Colonel Panic · 2025-03-04 08:22:47

Thanks for the news John. Yeah, and Firefox isn't perfect either as we know.

Don't you miss the old days of the Internet when there were a plethora of browsers to choose from?

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-03-04 08:23:00)

brontosaurusrex · 2025-03-04 08:35:20

That leaves Firefox, basically.

Well
https://www.osnews.com/story/141813/moz … fox-users/
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9344

johnraff · 2025-03-04 08:53:55

^That issue is already being thoroughly discussed on the linked forum thread.

My point was that if you want to continue using uBlock Origin, Firefox (or a fork) is the only choice.

Pirx · 2025-03-04 09:12:41

Colonel Panic wrote:

Don't you miss the old days of the Internet when there were a plethora of browsers to choose from?

And when was that? I remember IE, Opera, Mozilla and several browser based on IE. All of them displayed sites differently. It was a mess, to be honest. Without all the standarization and improvements that happened during last twenty years, online banking and shopping wouldn't be as smooth as it is now.

Nowadays, there is plenty of browsers to choose from. Yes they are all based on two web engines, but this is a good thing, in my opinion. So, try Brave, Vivaldi, Librewolf, Waterfox...

I've never used Chromium with Ublock Origin. Other ad-blockers work just fine, but I guess they will be removed, too.

Last edited by Pirx (2025-03-04 09:14:40)

PackRat · 2025-03-04 10:53:03

Good luck to these devs -

https://ladybird.org/

marens · 2025-03-04 14:35:20

Here's what Raymond Hill, the author of uBlock Origin, said yesterday:

gorhill wrote:

I can't realistically continue to try maintaining a version for Chromium-based browsers once support for MV2 is completely removed. I can still do so for Firefox and other compatible Gecko-based browsers.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock- … t-12378705

Anyway:

Mozilla wrote:

No limits on your extensions with Firefox
Google began phasing out Manifest V2 last year and plans to end support for extensions built on it by mid-2025. That change has real consequences: Chrome users are already losing access to uBlock Origin, one of the most popular ad blockers, because it relies on a Manifest V2 feature called blockingWebRequest.
Google’s approach replaces blockingWebRequest with declarativeNetRequest, which limits how extensions can filter content. Since APIs define what extensions can and can’t do inside a browser, restricting certain APIs can limit what types of extensions are possible.
Firefox, however, will continue supporting both blockingWebRequest and declarativeNetRequest — giving developers more flexibility and keeping powerful privacy tools available to users.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/fi … adblockers

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-03-04 16:22:10

Epiphany's built-in addblocker is actually very good. I rarely see ads when it's on.

chroot · 2025-03-04 21:03:47

Brave ad blocker should continue to work although the browser itself is based on chrome/chromium.

Pirx · 2025-03-04 21:59:22

Brave is my favourite browser at the moment. I've just installed it on BunsenLabs and it works great.

Colonel Panic · 2025-03-04 23:31:15

Pirx wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Don't you miss the old days of the Internet when there were a plethora of browsers to choose from?
And when was that? I remember IE, Opera, Mozilla and several browser based on IE. All of them displayed sites differently. It was a mess, to be honest. Without all the standarization and improvements that happened during last twenty years, online banking and shopping wouldn't be as smooth as it is now.
Nowadays, there is plenty of browsers to choose from. Yes they are all based on two web engines, but this is a good thing, in my opinion. So, try Brave, Vivaldi, Librewolf, Waterfox...
I've never used Chromium with Ublock Origin. Other ad-blockers work just fine, but I guess they will be removed, too.

OK, fair point. Getting old(er) and a bit grumpy I suppose and "it was better in the old days" ...

I've also tried Basilisk recently and that's pretty good too;

https://www.basilisk-browser.org/

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-03-04 23:34:01)

Döbbie03 · 2025-03-05 03:53:02

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-for … ghtly.html

Sun For Miles · 2025-03-05 07:06:28

Döbbie03 wrote:

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-for … ghtly.html

Interesting project, I am still not sure what they plan to produce as cli tool, I only see installer script in the repository.

This topic was always dear to me and I ended up setting up network wide blocker. I trust them enough to run their AdGuard Home on my local server. It's a big family house with about a dozen cellphone devices, 5-6 desktops, and bunch of IoT/smart TVs.

These are stats in past 30 minutes:

greenjeans · 2025-03-05 21:27:29

As mentioned by others in this thread, the onboard adblocker in Brave works really well for me.

Döbbie03 · 2025-03-06 04:53:01

Sun For Miles wrote:

Döbbie03 wrote:
https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-for … ghtly.html
Interesting project, I am still not sure what they plan to produce as cli tool, I only see installer script in the repository.
This topic was always dear to me and I ended up setting up network wide blocker. I trust them enough to run their AdGuard Home on my local server. It's a big family house with about a dozen cellphone devices, 5-6 desktops, and bunch of IoT/smart TVs.
These are stats in past 30 minutes:
https://i.imgur.com/LpCO7dym.png

I use NextDNS network wide and it catches a lot of crap. When my Samsung TV's had a network connection they were the main culprit but a long way, an incredible number of calls home. I removed them from the network and run AppleTV's instead.

Sun For Miles · 2025-03-06 19:49:12

I have never used NextDNS but I like your dashboard view better than my/AdGuard. The reason why I created custom Grafana dashboard is there are statistics only available in premium subscription which show zero's in Home version dashboard:

Back on the topic, I think network wide blockers help secure (malware and phishing block lists) and speed up (not loading ad domains, cached responses are available for other users in the network) connection especially on devices of less tech-savvy folk.

Colonel Panic · 2025-03-07 11:40:04

I've just seen someone on the AntiX forum mention the new Thorium browser, which I haven;t tried yet but it looks interesting;

https://thorium.rocks/

DeepDayze · 2025-03-07 19:29:35

Waterfox is a nice browser too, and it doesn't play the games Mozilla just played yet also still has full Manifest v2 support. Also DDG works well as a search engine!

Chromium I still will keep around but won't do too much browsing with it anymore.

Last edited by DeepDayze (2025-03-07 19:30:26)

DeepDayze · 2025-03-07 19:31:56

Sun For Miles wrote:

I have never used NextDNS but I like your dashboard view better than my/AdGuard. The reason why I created custom Grafana dashboard is there are statistics only available in premium subscription which show zero's in Home version dashboard:
https://i.imgur.com/1M1Toyxt.png
Back on the topic, I think network wide blockers help secure (malware and phishing block lists) and speed up (not loading ad domains, cached responses are available for other users in the network) connection especially on devices of less tech-savvy folk.

Those might become a good option for those who still require Chrome/ium. Any good ones to check out that will work in BL/Debian?

Windows users could benefit from a network based blocker as well and that's not tied to a browser.

Last edited by DeepDayze (2025-03-07 19:32:40)

Döbbie03 · 2025-03-07 19:36:30

A genuine question, as a non-Chrome/ium user, why would there ever be a requirement to use Chrome/ium over Firefox/LibreWolf? Is it for certain sites or something else?

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