Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

anaisbetts•about 2 hours ago

Welp, the biggest reason that I use Edge just got thrown out, time to switch to Firefox.

feverzsj•about 2 hours ago

Basically every chromium based browser.

olivermuty•about 2 hours ago

Brave as well?

eddythompson80•4 minutes ago

Brave said they’ll keep some select MV2 extensions, though that remains to be seen. Especially if it causes too much maintenance headache with upstream chromium. Also it seems that Brave now distributes these select MV2 extensions. So I’m not sure if they have forked them, or if they just repackage upstream.

feverzsj•about 1 hour ago

Brave's adblock isn't as powerful as ublock.

antonymoose•19 minutes ago

In what sense? As a normie-tier user of Brave’s internal and blocker, it’s worked great. I never became a power-user of uBlock.

zamadatix•34 minutes ago

It doesn't have to be so long as it still supports the above.

poulpy123•about 3 hours ago

I honestly don't know how people do without ad blockers. Even with being ok with ads, they are so overwhelming that I could not use internet without blocking them

massysett•37 minutes ago

I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it.

WhyIsItAlwaysHN•27 minutes ago

So no youtube?

NeutralWanted•11 minutes ago

YouTube premium is one of the best subs you can buy if you watch a lot of YouTube. Plus you get Music.

massysett•24 minutes ago

YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit.

jmclnx•35 minutes ago

I use noscript instead of an ad blocker. I find it blocks the intrusive ads. I do not mind what I view as normal ads (ie: text or link), but these video and popup ads drive me crazy. I find noscript blocks the "bad" ads.

cake-rusk•about 2 hours ago

Most laypeople I know haven't seen an ad blocker in action ever.

squigz•about 1 hour ago

I install Firefox and uBlock on friends/family devices as often as I can.

Balinares•about 1 hour ago

In case your assumption here is that TFA is about Edge disabling adblockers: it's not. It's just removing ManifestV2 support. ManifestV3 is still supported. Despite what one might assume, MV3 does not seem to measurably diminish the effectiveness of adblockers; if anything, it improves it. (Source: https://petsymposium.org/popets/2026/popets-2026-0027.php)

LelouBil•about 1 hour ago

Isn't the main issue that for MV3 you can't have a dynamic blocklist ? And so you have to update it with an extension update ?

phire•20 minutes ago

There is a dynamic API too that allows extensions to modify the blocklist at runtime.

I’ve been using UBlock Origin Lite on my iPhone for a while, and that works great, keeping itself updated from EasyList and allowing for custom rules.

In some ways it’s better, in some ways it’s worse. Sometimes you have to flip it into “complete mode” (and give it full access to modify the current site) to get good blocking.

raverbashing•about 4 hours ago

I guess it still will be the best browser to download Firefox

jmclnx•34 minutes ago

Lets hope it stays that way :)

But if offered enough $, I fear it will join that no-bocker bandwagon.

biglyburrito•about 3 hours ago

It always was.

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

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