Neowin News Feed for: Ublock

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

Sayan Sen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:28:01 +0000

Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too. Read more...

uBlock Origin Lite launches on Apple Safari

Usama Jawad — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:26:01 +0000

uBlock Origin Lite has received a surprise release on the App Store. The ad blocker leverages Manifest V3 and supports Safari on newer versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Read more...

You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how

Taras Buria — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:24:02 +0000

Google recently disabled uBlock Origin and other extensions for Chrome users with no apparent option to restore them. The good news is that you can still make uBlock Origin work. Here is how. Read more...

uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to uBlock Lite as Chrome flags the extension

Taras Buria — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 14:38:01 +0000

Google Chrome users with the uBlock Origin extension installed started noticing that the browser flagged the extension as "soon to be unsupported." Here is why this happens and what to do with it. Read more...

Anti-ad blocking firm, Admiral, deals potentially damaging blow to ad blockers

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:36:01 +0000

Admiral, an anti-ad blocking company, may have found a way to cripple ad blockers after it issued a DMCA takedown notice to a popular ad blocking filter list, which complied to avoid legal trouble. Read more...