See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754274

Also this ongoing related thread:

Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32899846 - Sept 2022 (152 comments)

For those of you wondering about the technical aspects of version 3 manifest and what it means for adblockers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWCLhHrblE

(No affiliation, I just like the way he explains things like this)

Google has ruined their search engine by going from search terms to natural language processing and giving websites a higher rank if they answer these natural questions.

And now when I Google ‘black widow bite morality rage’ I get webpages of local pest control claiming 7-8 people per year. But this website has zero authority on that matter. Hell, I don’t even know who would link to that.

But because they have this question-answer style they are popular.

Now with this there is an insane amount of conflict. Who are you serving? The users of your browser? Or your shareholders.

Didn't Gorhill create uBlock, sell it, create uBlock Origin, and now there's uBlock Origin Lite? What's next uBlock Origin Lite Pro Max?

Basically it was a hostile take over by an associate. That eventually resulted in ublock "origin" to differentiate it from the other ublock.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/32mos6/ublock_vs_ub...

This one is called lite because it is not as good as the old version, entirely thanks to Google removing support for manifest v2 extensions.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4d...

While we're here, does anyone know what Firefox is planning to do about this? Are they going to cripple their extensions by using v3 too?

They stated [1] that they are going support MV3 but keep maintaining the blocking WebRequest API.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...

he didn't sell it, he wanted to stop development and gave it to someone else, who turned out not to be trustworthy, so he made uBlock Origin.

uBlock Origin Lite/Minus are a response to googles manifest v3, which will be mandated soon, taking away some of the APIs needed for uBlock Origin to stay as effective as it currently is. So this is basically a neutered version of uBlock Origin, because the original version will cease to be able to exist in its current form on chromium (but not firefox)

The “Lite” version is an experimental release that supports Manifest V3. Unfortunately, that has various limitations

Pretty sure he just passed the torch off to someone else (without selling it) because he was tired of it, then continued development shortly aftwards as "ublock origin". uBlock itself (not origin) got sold off the Adblocker Plus and allows some ads.

Somehow I don't trust an ad blocker that comes from Google.

It's by gorhill. Essentially all Chrome extensions are hosted on the chrome.google.com domain, so I guess it is technically distributed by Google.