{"id":207019,"date":"2025-02-23T03:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T09:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/google-chrome-disables-ublock-origin-for-some-in-manifest-v3-rollout"},"modified":"2025-02-23T03:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T09:05:21","slug":"google-chrome-disables-ublock-origin-for-some-in-manifest-v3-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/google-chrome-disables-ublock-origin-for-some-in-manifest-v3-rollout","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-chrome-disables-ublock-origin-for-some-in-manifest-v3-rollout2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as part of its efforts to push users to Manifest V3-based extensions.<\/p>\n<p>For those unaware, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/google\/google-chrome-change-that-weakens-ad-blockers-begins-june-3rd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manifest V3 is Chrome\u2019s latest extension specification<\/a> and is designed to limit extension access to user network requests, block developers from utilizing remote content, and improve overall performance.<\/p>\n<p>While Manifest V3 is supposed to benefit end users, it comes at the cost of functionality, as it imposes stricter limitations on browser extensions, particularly ad blockers and privacy-focused tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as part of its efforts to push users to Manifest V3-based extensions. For those unaware, Manifest V3 is Chrome\u2019s latest extension specification and is designed to limit extension access to user network requests, block developers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}