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“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

Google is switching from manifest V2 to V3

“As early as March 2025, this rendered some extensions—including popular ad blockers such as uBlock Origin—suddenly unusable, even though it was still possible to access them with a workaround.

By the end of June, however, even that will no longer work.

A future release of Chrome will block all add-ons still based on Manifest V2.”

There might be some other work arounds in the future

“Here’s what we know for sure: once the change goes live, there’s no going back.

It will be significantly more difficult to use ad blockers like uBlock Origin.

Doing so would require using developer settings and making changes that would make the browser less stable.”

The blocking of ad blockers isn’t a direct attack, but more of a side effect of switching to V3, though that’s what the company says

V3 is meant to be more safe and prevent rogue browser extensions from interfering deeply with a user’s system.

“Given that there have been repeated instances of extensions posing a serious threat, it’s understandable that Google wants to prevent that from happening.

The fact that it can also hamper ad blockers with the same move is just a bonus that Google is unlikely to be too upset about.”