uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by HumblyTossed on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:46PM (#43325115)

Please don't forget the part developers played in this by enabling Chrome/Google to become so very dominant.

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by culi on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:01PM (#43327135)

And developers can play a part in reversing that. It seems like it might already be happening:

  | month   | Chrome | Firefox | Safari |
  | --      | --     | --      | --     |
  | Jan '25 | -1.29  | +0.07   | +0.84  |
  | Feb '25 | -0.75  | +0.08   | +0.03  |

Note: Edge is also gaining. They use Chromium but their stance on Manifest v3 is unclear to me. So far they don't seem to have any plans to deprecate v2 support

I know these numbers seem tiny, but if these trends were to continue, Chrome could be under 50% marketshare by June 2026 and overtaken by the end of 2027

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by ta1243 on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:43PM (#43327517)

> but if these trends were to continue

Disco Stu has something to say about that

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by derwiki on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @01:59AM (#43329586)

Hey, Disco Stu doesn’t advertise

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by dave7 on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:58PM (#43328054)

Microsoft intend to deprecate V2 and move fully to V3 basically as soon as they can, pretty much in lockstep with Google:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-...

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by culi on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @11:26AM (#43333412)

Thanks for the link. Definitely sad to hear

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by lern_too_spel on Monday March 10, 2025 @11:23PM (#43328870)

Safari is even worse at ad blocking, basically ManifestV3 with fewer rules, so this is moving in the wrong direction.

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