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- Google has announced that Manifest V3 will roll out on Chrome in non-stable branches as early as June 2024.
- This will deprecate Manifest V2, which many ad-blockers like uBlock Origin use for their functionality.
- uBlock Origin devs have released a Lite version that is Manifest V3-compliant, but it is not a complete substitute.
uBlock Origin is considered one of the best ad blocker extensions you can install on Google Chrome, and I agree. But Chrome has been planning to make certain changes to how extensions work on the browser, and these changes threaten the existence of ad-blockers in the ways that they exist today. Google has announced that it is moving ahead with these changes, putting down a timeline of July 2024, and sadly, the changes will disable uBlock Origin.
What is the news on Chrome’s Manifest V3?
Google has announced that it is moving ahead with its plans to deprecate the older Manifest V2 and roll out the newer Manifest V3 within Google Chrome. Manifest V2 extensions will be disabled in Chrome Dev, Canary, and Beta builds as early as June 2024 in Chrome 127 and later.