**Google rejected the last beta of UBO from the CWS** and Gorhill marked the issue as "wontfix" so **if nothing change UBO on the next update could be removed from the Chrome web store**.
**https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745**
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**Google rejected the last beta of UBO from the CWS** and Gorhill marked the issue as "wontfix" so **if nothing change UBO on the next update could be removed from the Chrome web store**.
**https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745**
this is terrible it’s the only thing I use, does anyone have any recommendations for something comparable thats safe
When that happens, I’m immediately switching browsers. Chrome is just getting worse at this point.
Edge based on chromium is a real good alternative
Gorhill sounds like a diva. Wonder what revenue stream he has hidden in the code?
Check out Vivaldi. Based on Chromium, developer by one of the original Opera founders.
uBlock is the best adblocker ever.
Why should they fix it? It does one thing. it fucking blocks ADS!
They need to fight this.
I sent an escalation mail to a team internally. Hopefully someone can look at this.
Will this affect chromium based browsers? Like beta egde?
To be honest, this is all about manifest V3. Google doesn’t want its Ad business to be impacted.
I’ll try to sideload this version anyway. If it fails, it’s the end of line for Chrome here – I’ll be switching to Firefox.
It was the Developer version and not a beta that was rejected. The stable and prior Dev version is still offered via the Chrome Store, for how long is a guessing game.
The only reason they are a “Monopoly” is because they offer a better product. The day that stops being true they’ll fall down the same hole as Microsoft’s IE team, Yahoo, AOL, Sears, Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry, MySpace and all the others that didn’t care about what their user’s wanted.
Google is an advertising company. That’s why.
My theory is that uBlock works too well, and is costing Google Adsense/Adwords customers money. They are always changing things based on what their adverrising customers want. All of the algorithm changes starting with Panda and forward were because certain sites were dominating Page 1, and they were sites that didn’t get “legitimate” adsense clicks. People clicked on adsense to pay the sites, but didn’t buy anything.
Let’s face it, they make the bulk of their revenue on their advertising. ([Source](https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/business-google.asp)) Those customers are always going to come before the users. Maybe if they lose enough users, like Firefox did once, they’ll come around. I doubt it, but we’ll see.
RemindMe! 2 days
I already switched to firefox. Not much difference IMO and no regrets. The thing that sucks is that youtube doesn’t work nearly as well. I’ve heard Google uses chrome specific APIs while building it, but I’m not totally sure. All I know is that the website is much choppier on FF for me at least.
Also, there is a feature in chrome where you can hit TAB when the website is autocompleted and it gives you a search prompt for the site. Ex, I will type “amaz” then hit tab and I can start typing my search query for amazon directly into the URL bar. Works for most sites with a search bar (imdb, amazon, youtube, ~~pornhub~~… i mean SWF family sites…). Not sure if this exists in FF.
Unrejected and approved [https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/dgncga/dev\_build\_1225rc1\_rejected\_from\_chrome\_web\_store/f3gioed?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x](https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/dgncga/dev_build_1225rc1_rejected_from_chrome_web_store/f3gioed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x)
totally disgusting. but i guess that’s expected given they’re now free to be evil 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
chrome is google AD+telemetry+scam not browser
I swear if Google removed UBO, I am dumping Google.