Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by sroussey on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:07PM (#49516356)

But they don’t. Google and others do vet ads, but when they don’t host them, the ads can change based on who is looking (clean ads for Google! Not for you!).

Google didn’t have this issue until they bought DoubleClick (text ads and they hosted). And they had pretty good privacy as they didn’t want to share shit.

After DC it all went to hell.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by cwnyth on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:57PM (#49517798)

> But they don’t. Google and others do vet ads, but when they don’t host them, the ads can change based on who is looking (clean ads for Google! Not for you!).

That sounds like a problem that Google should have already solved. Maybe that's why "Don't Be Evil" got the boot.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by anticensor on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:11AM (#49517873)

> the ads can change based on who is looking (clean ads for Google! Not for you!).

How is that even allowed?

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by heavenlyblue on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:51AM (#49523680)

So they are not hosting the ads? But either way, stuff like hashing content (and only whitelisting hashes which are approved) should solve that.

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