The title is outright dishonest. Ad blockers are not being disabled.
Also, news of the manifest v3 timeline discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38292409
Also, news of the manifest v3 timeline discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38292409
If this is true, then ad blockers will, de facto, be disabled in Chrome.
The functionality available to adblockers will change, and they will definitely have less flexibility. But nobody would say that Safari doesn't have adblockers, despite having a similar interface.
The "Google authorized updates to blocklist" bit looks like an even more blatant lie. Dynamic blocklists that aren't updated via Chrome Web Store are supported:
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-fi...
AFAIU, this is indeed the case of uBlock Origin lite: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...
Well, "crippled" is a no-no…
Do people not bother to fact check anything?
The creator of ublock has made an ad blocker specifically for the new API and it's available to use right now. It's objectively incorrect to claim that ad blockers will not work after June 2024.
The ublock lite extension does have some limitations, such as not allowing you to create filters at runtime. This is the result of not allowing extensions to load code at runtime.
It's fair to criticize this limitation, but that's not what's happening here.
This information is available, it's not hidden, you can read the readme of the ublock lite github repo or something, but are not even attempting to do this for some reason.
I have used the ublock lite extensions to see for myself if it's totally broken, and it worked fine for me, the main limitation for me is not having the "element zapper", but it not blocking ads was not something that I experienced.
I am all for criticizing companies actions, and ad blockers are very important to me just as well as anyone else here, but the dishonestly is very off putting and disappointing.
Other things that don't and can't do the full job, yet have a name that claims "ad blocker", even "ublock origin lite", are something else and irrelevant.
An honest title would be "In June 2024, ad blockers such as ublock origin will have reduced functionality", or something along those lines.
Ublock origin lite is an ad blocker, it's not something else, and it's not irrelevant, and you use vague language such as "it cant do the full job" without explaining what this means. This is misleading and incorrect.
No goal posts have moved and ublock origin is not just a random "specific blocker" it's the gold standard one that actually does what they all should, because the author is principled and not for sale.
In this context, "function" and "does what they all should" means "places ultimate control in the hands of the user" ie, allows you to do things that web sites and google don't like, but which you want. Most other ad blockers don't do that. They say they do, but they don't. Just like ublock itself, which caused the original author to fork and create ublock origin in the first place.
It's been exactly the same story ever since manifest v3 was first proposed.
If you somehow were unaware of that, consider yourself hereby informed.