Google Chrome is closing the loopholes that let old ad blockers keep working

Google Chrome mentation 150 and 151, expected successful precocious June and July, respectively, volition chopped disconnected enactment for the past remaining workarounds for moving older advertisement blockers, 9to5Google reports. Google phased retired support for ad-blocking extensions built for Manifest V2, similar uBlock Origin, successful 2024. At that point, astir Chrome users either switched to newer Manifest V3 advertisement blockers similar uBlock Origin Lite oregon switched to a antithetic browser.

Google is present removing the last bits of codification referencing its erstwhile Manifest V2 extensions platform, truthful lone advertisement blockers that enactment connected the Manifest V3 level volition enactment successful Chrome mentation 151 onward.

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