Previously rejected uBlock Origin Has Been Approved for the Chrome Web Store
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Also, they then doubled down and blocked manual installation of AdNauseam, which is an overstep even if they were somehow justified in the ban.
> Also, they then doubled down and blocked manual installation of AdNauseam, which is an overstep even if they were somehow justified in the ban.
No they didn't. Again I'm not saying I agree or disagree with your stance on AdNauseam being blocked from the store but your wording conveniently drops details that don't fit your narrative. Chrome won't load any packaged extension that isn't in the store but it loads unpacked extensions regardless when you click the developer mode toggle. When installed manually with the steps on https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on... the extension loads fine.
Well, maybe. The stated reason for both of the bans was the single-use-only policy, which is clearly BS. The fact that AdNauseam is more damaging for Google certainly wouldn't help its case, but the fact that Google has now gone after uBlock as well indicates they don't make much of a distinction between the two. The point of my comment is not so much to relitigate the AdNauseam ban, but to argue that both bans were not errant mistakes but deliberate moves.
> Chrome won't load any packaged extension that isn't in the store but it loads unpacked extensions regardless when you click the developer mode toggle.
It looks like you're right, and I was not aware of this; I thought the packed extension blocking was specific to AdNauseam. The page I linked is being somewhat disingenuous on this point. Unfortunately, it's too late for me to edit my comment now.
It could be a Chrome blog post or a submission to HN and Reddit r/chrome.
Also, thank you for your transparency in comments like https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_....
Sure it can. I mean the best case scenario is them confirming, yet again, they plan to neuter ad blockers in forthcoming updates and getting more bad press around that. The worst case is all of the backlash for banning ad blockers comes out at once while when blockers are still at peak ability/usage instead of when they have been slowly chipped away at.
Attention goes away quicker if they don't say anything at all. The only reason they are saying this much this time is because it's too soon for something like this to happen and it'd generate too much backlash so they are killing the news cycle while it's still just "assumptions on the possibility it'll be removed in the future".