New AdBlocker Recommendations

[Orcvader]

Absolutely - just depends whether MS use it as an opportunity to branch off from Google and keep them and thus try and get more market share or whether it follows Googles lead.

Either way there will be clever people out there that will, eventually, develop something.

M.

I doubt Edge will fork Chromium just to keep mv2 working. They already stated they will follow Google's roadmap on phasing it out: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/developer-guide/manifest-v3

Manifest V2 extensions will continue to be supported through Enterprise policies at least until the date in the Chromium Manifest V2 support timeline.

I got the same message in Chrome saying uBO isn't supported any more. But I just went into the Extension Manager screen and turned it back on. Seems to still work fine, but maybe that's just temporary?

Good to have the other options suggested here though.

It's temporary, it's Google's way of letting you know they will soon block mv2 extensions, and then eventually phase out support completely.

 

[m4cc45]

And that may be it, but then there may be another dev who adds it back in or adds enough of it to work with some of the addons, or they may find a completely different way to implement ad-blocking. Whilst Google is saying 'more secure' the lack of adblocking makes it less secure s well.



M.

 

[Jupiter]

uBlock Origin is the only correct answer

 

[dayloon]

I did some manifest v2 reg fix so i could carry on using the original uBlock Origin

 

[yashiro]

Stop using Chrome (and their commercial derivatives) is the solution.

 

[MarcLister]

I found a few years ago it was annoying having just a browser-based ad blocker. With multiple computers I'd have to block each site/ad domain on each computer. So I set up a Pi-Hole to cover the network for me. I still have uBlock Origin in Firefox aloing with I don't care about cookies, Privacy Badger and Ghostery Tracker. I think that having a network wide blocker, like Pi-Hole, plus browser-based plug-ins is the best of both worlds.

 

[TrojanWhore]

I'm still using Ublock on Firefox, have switched to ghostery on Chrome just because I stumbled across that before realising UB Lite was a thing... seems fine so far

 

[Freefaller]

What about NextDNS ad-blocking at £18 a year, anyone tried it?

I use NextDNS - it's set up on my router so if I change anything on the control panel it automatically has the impact on the whole network. I've also set it up on tablets / phones so that even outside of the house it's still protected. Gives me peace of mind and a LOT less ads and annoying stuff.

I used to run pihole - but the advantage of something like NextDNS is the fact you can use it outside of the network more easily.

 

[Ice Tea]

I use NextDNS - it's set up on my router

Do websites still detect a Adblocker is in use?

 

[Freefaller]

Do websites still detect a Adblocker is in use?

Not sure to be honest! Give me a website that typically does?

What is apparent is when I use the work computer outside of my network a lot less ads in banners and so on. It does seem to cause issues with trackers (by design) so using things like referral links don't work well, but you can disable or use a VPN if you need to.

What I like about it is that it protects all of our devices and in particular for the kids, meaning they can't access adult materials.

 

[Ice Tea]

Not sure to be honest! Give me a website that typically does?

Does anyone know a site that runs an ad-block wall for Freefaller to test it, as I'm no longer getting a warning on Forbes or The New York Times?

 

[Freefaller]

This is what NYT looks like on my phone.

No pop ups or anything else. Not sure if it's because it has no ads anyway?

Forbes look a little odd:

 

[Ice Tea]

Typical, all i'm finding is ad-walls, please signup to continue.

Does anyone know of a site that blocks users for using a adblocker?