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Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability

Island found dormant JavaScript injection paths in Adblock for YouTube, a Chrome extension with 10M+ installs, raising ...

Chrome users are losing their best ad-blocker

Chrome has started removing workarounds that let users enable Manifest V2 support and install extensions like uBlock Origin.
Bleeping Computer

Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon

Google's Chrome Web Store is now warning that the uBlock Origin ad blocker and other extensions may soon be blocked as part of the company's deprecation of the Manifest V2 extension specification.

This is why your ad blocker no longer works on Chrome

If your ad blocker isn't working anymore on Chrome, here's what to do.
Android Authority

Do you use uBlock Origin on Chrome? You'll soon have to use another ad blocker

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 users to ...
Houston Chronicle

Coming changes to Chrome and other web browsers may kneecap ad blockers

Do you use Google’s Chrome browser on your PC or Mac to visit websites? And if so, do you have an ad blocker installed? If you’ve not been paying attention to the recent cries of pain from the makers ...
TechSpot

Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store

Bottom line: After years of delaying the adoption of Manifest V3, Google is now moving forward and accelerating the process. Soon, users will have to choose between accepting Chrome's inferior ...

End of an era for ad blockers in Google Chrome

Google recently released Chrome 149, which will be the last version of the popular web browser to support an important ...