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

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Two Chrome updates coming later this summer will remove workarounds for running ad blockers like uBlock Origin. Two Chrome updates coming later this summer will remove workarounds for running ad blockers like uBlock Origin. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google Chrome version 150 and 151, expected in late June and July, respectively, will cut off support for the last remaining workarounds for running older ad blockers, 9to5Google reports. Google phased out support for ad-blocking extensions built for Manifest V2, like uBlock Origin, in 2024. At that point, most Chrome users either switched to newer Manifest V3 ad blockers like uBlock Origin Lite or switched to a different browser. Google is now removing the final bits of code referencing its previous Manifest V2 extensions platform

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