Google Chrome update will fully close the door on ad blockers

Google Chrome’s move to Manifest V3 for extensions is closing its final loophole and, with it, bringing the end of many ad blocker tools.

The move to Manifest V3 has been in the works for years at this point, with one of the main points of criticism from users being that the change would break most ad blockers due to the new permissions structure and Google’s focus on privacy. The impacts of that were felt broadly in 2024 and, now, Google is closing the book on Manifest V2 and, in turn, popular ad blockers such as uBlock Origin.

Your periodic reminder that you don't need to use Chrome to use the web.

I prefer Firefox at the moment as my daily driver. I'll switch to Brave if Firefox can't render a page properly for whatever reason.

I'm also carefully following the progress of Ladybird. I wish I was more interested in browser development so I could contribute via open source but (a) the complexity of code required to power a browser feels outside of my abilities at the moment, and (b) they recently closed off PRs from non-maintainers.