One of my co-workers switched to UBlock Lite instead of UBlock Origin and now the ads are back.
Now he’s working on switching to a non-Google browser.
Good job, Google. You have killed Google for yet another former customer.
Chrome users are not customers, they’re the product.
OK, then. Killing their product.
You are not Google’s customer. You’re the product they sell to their customers.
Edit: Made this comment before refreshing the post to see the person above me. What they said.
Firefox or Librewolf are nice.
I like Floorp.
Haven’t found a better fork with vertical tabs and the customization Floorp offers. So Floorp it is.
Stop. Using. Chrome.
Firefox is the way.
For crying out loud they’re not just targeting adblockers.
Join [email protected] folks!
I don’t have any chrome extensions because I don’t use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.
chrome just killed Ublock on me and EVERY site is now full of ads… I had no idea how bad it had become! What browser do you suggest?
Firefox or a fork of Firefox.
Firefox of course.
I’d also suggest their VPN, as its a cheaper mullvad.
The sad thing is that people will see this and still try to find a way to keep using chrome instead of just moving to a browser that actually respects them.
This is the list, for those who don’t want to read it. I don’t see Adguard Adblocker on there, surprisingly or SponsorBlock. Besides UBlock Origin, which is a staple extension of mine for all browsers and we’ve long knew about Google’s approach to that. I haven’t seen a lot of what I use/used on here. I don’t even know most of these.
360 Ads Blocker Adblock Fast Awesome Bookmarks Button Block Ads Bookmark All Bookmark It Bookmark Lock Bookmark Manager Speed Dial Bookmark My Tabs Comodo Ad Blocker Comodo Online Security Pro Content Blocker Delicious Bookmark Bar Sync Domain Blocker Ethical AdBlock -- Ad Blocker Fast Bookmark Ghostery Private Search for Chrome Google Ad Blocker Google Privacy Shade Hover Zoom+ Little Bookmark Box Location Guard MalwareAI Browser Security Pinboard Bookmark Bar Sync Popup Fixer Privacy Cleaner Privacy Extension Private Bookmarker Private Bookmarks Simple Site Blocker Touch VPN Trump Blocker TunnelBear Blocker Website Blocker Wikipedia Popup YouTube Anywhere RemoteI don’t know if it’s related, but an extension we use at work called Redirector was just disabled a few weeks ago for being “unsupported.” It’s the only reason I even used Chrome, so I guess I can go back to Safari. At home I only use Firefox.
Pushbullet is also dead. ☹️
Nope. Cloud to Butt still works for me.
Forgot about cloud to butt. We might need AI to butt with a backwards compatible blockchain to butt nowadays.
Yeah they essentially killed about half the extensions I use. I have to use the browser for work.
One of the extensions blocked is called “Trump blocker” - looks like they are getting into arse kissing too
- Embrace
- Extend
- Extinguish <<< we are here
XMPP all over again.
For reals please don’t use chrome it’s a terrible browser
Glad that I moved to firefox 4 months ago and then to zen browser last week to avoid plugins removal. Haven’t looked back
So, the elephant in the room is Chrome killing ad-blocking.
I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
As of February:
Chrome: 66.3%
Safari: 17.99%
Edge: 5.33%
Firefox: 2.62%
The software used to view the Web in 2025 is really mostly under the control of either Google or Apple.
I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking
An argument could also be made that Firefox and its forks have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue won’t want to deal with the extra work of keeping those users out.
A lot of Firefox users spoof the useragent.
I don’t bother. Most sites I wouldn’t miss at all. There’s only half a dozen or so websites that could force me to take any action on my end.
There’s always PiHole to block ads at the network level. It takes some setup and a raspberry pi but it can be one of the cheaper ones. And I’m pretty sure the sites aren’t going to do much more than check the User Agent to get the browser so User Agent Switcher will get around 99% of that.
You could, I suppose, block Firefox in other ways (like maybe checking for some random Chromium feature not yet supported in Firefox) but Firefox isn’t usually far behind Chrome so it would almost take an entire new developer to be effective. And there’s probably ways around that too. (I’m a web developer but have never worked on an ad-supported project and never will so I’m not sure but life finds a way.)
Yep, I have my PiHole running on a Pi2 still.
You’re underestimating these websites though. I already run into sites that arbitrarily throw up a “Firefox not supported” gate until I switch user agents. That will only get worse.
I’m still very concerned about Firefox’s funding majority coming from Google search, especially after the antitrust shutting it down. https://slashdot.org/story/431592
We’re headed for dark times for the open internet.
I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?
They are probably moving to Chrome DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi
I only care about adblocking, so ControlD+Brave for me.
Brave is a Chromium browser.
Yes, but its maintaining support for these extentions… for now at least.
As I said, I mainly care about adblocking. Shields (Brave’s adblocker) does an amazing job and doesn’t depend on MV2 or MV3 (it’s not an extension).
That’s precisely one of the reasons I use it.
