Google has been gradually disabling this extension in the form of uBlock Origin
Earlier this year, Google confirmed that extension support for the Manifest V2 framework was end of support for one of the best ad blockers, uBlock Origin. This is because it means that this app could be disabled in the Chrome browser for instance Mobile App Website. And this process, it appears, has already started.
A gradual deployment
As a result, uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill retweeted a post of a user, who noticed that his installed uBlock Origin extension was disabled on Chrome. There are indications that the deprecation of uBO in the Chrome Web Store has actually started: Therefore, it appears that the change is being done gradually, and not on all users simultaneously.
What alternative for users?
Many users complain that Google removes particular extensions that it thinks you should not use for some purpose. According to the description of uBlock Origin on the Chrome Web Store, the extension may not be supported soon. As uBlock Origin users know well already, their extension will cease working at some point in the very near future.
The available choices for them are to download uBlock Origin Lite, which even the creator of the extension mentions is less effective, or to move to another browser. This %complete version of uBlock Origin is still integrated with Brave and Mozilla Firefox browsers.
The context of this decision
Still, it is good to recall that Google receives the great majority of its revenues from advertising and thus can barely be considered a friend of ad-blocking software. That is a telling sign that it is constantly waging a war against ad blockers on the platform of YouTube.
Google claims that the Manifest V3 will still allow ad blockers to run on Chrome, and uBlock Origin Lite already uses this framework. However, this is a lite version of the extension, as the name suggests. Hill noted last year that this version is not as good as the MV2 version of uBlock, especially when it comes to content filtering.
