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Tom Pritchard

Google Chrome is disabling one of the world’s biggest ad blockers — what you need to know

Image of an Apple MacBook with a Google Chrome logo on the display.

Earlier this year Google confirmed it would start phasing out extension support for the Manifest V2 framework. That’s very bad news for uBlock Origin, one of the best ad blockers, because it means the app would end up being disabled in the Chrome browser. And that process has just started kicking off.

uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill retweeted a screenshot of one user, who found that uBlock Origin had been disabled in Chrome. Hill also added that “The depreciation of uBO in the Chrome Web Store has started”.

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