Google Chrome starts killing ad blockers [Video]

It looks like Google Chrome really wants you to look at advertisements.

In a quote post on X posted by Raymond Hill, the developer who brought us the free ad blocker Chrome extension uBlock Origin, it appears that Google Chrome is turning off the ad blocker.

“The deprecation of uBO in the Chrome Web Store has started,” Hill posted.

This comes in response to another user, Christoph Nakazawa posting a screenshot that shows Google Chrome turning off three extensions — MDN Search, Neat URL, and uBlock Origin — with the note “These extensions are no longer supported. Chrome recommends that you remove them.”

“After more than 15 years, it’s time to switch browsers. I just want Chrome but without nefarious behavior by Google,” Nakazawa wrote. “What Chrome-based browser would you recommend on macOS?”

As Mashable noted in August, this change comes as Google Chrome moves from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3. In an emailed statement to The Verge, a Google spokesperson …