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

https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3

50•eternalreturn•4h ago

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raverbashing•3h ago

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

biglyburrito•3h ago

It always was.

jmclnx•48m ago

Lets hope it stays that way :)

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

poulpy123•2h 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

cake-rusk•2h ago

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

Balinares•1h 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•1h 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•34m 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.

gruez•8m ago

>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.

I don't how this is supposed to be a demerit given that the v2 version had full access to every site you visit. Safari just made that more explicit.

Larrikin•6m ago

squigz•1h ago

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

massysett•51m ago

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

WhyIsItAlwaysHN•41m ago

So no youtube?

massysett•38m ago

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

Ylpertnodi•26m ago

'Rainbow Dome Musick', by Steve Hillagr..glorious soothing music, then 30 mins in, a Barilla pasta advert. Sorry, youtube - I tried.

tornikeo•16m ago

Humans are just so damn different in their tolerance to wasting time. I can't take feeling like I wasted 10 seconds of my time on an ad even when watching an video for recreation.

NeutralWanted•25m ago

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

Krssst•16m ago

jmclnx•49m 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.

feverzsj•2h ago

Basically every chromium based browser.

olivermuty•1h ago

Brave as well?

feverzsj•1h ago

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

zamadatix•48m ago

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

antonymoose•33m 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.

wild_pointer•8m ago

+1, works well enough

eddythompson80•18m 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.

anaisbetts•1h ago

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

gruez•12m ago

The telemetry and ads (on start page) didn't bother you? I'm surprised there's seemingly a contingent of people who are too lazy to install any other chrome fork (eg. Brave), but are motivated enough to up sticks and switch to firefox the moment ublock is removed.

TiredOfLife•44m ago

It's ending manifest V2, not just adblockers.

uBlock Origin lite is V3 and is still supported

s0ss•12m ago

Inferior alternative

gruez•6m ago

Serious question: which sites have you encountered where ublock lite doesn't do the job? Even tricky sites (eg. youtube) are defeated with scriptlets, not by intercepting network responses.

NeutralWanted•14m ago

Running Unbound on my gateway with a curated adblock list. Easy setup, network-wide ad blocking on every device / browser.

cmeacham98•13m ago

Some ads (e.g. I know YT ads used to be this way, haven't looked recently) can't be blocked at the network level because they are served from the same domain/servers as the content.

NeutralWanted•9m ago

Sure, but have YT Premium for the family. Don't know how anyone can use YT without it. And it blocks 90% of ads, the rest are tolerable / go mostly unnoticed.

gruez•10m ago

DNS based adblockers have strictly worse adblocking capabilities than manifest v3 adblockers. I mean, sure they have their uses (eg. blocking ads/telemetry in apps or whatever), but bringing them up in this context doesn't really make sense.

s0ss•13m ago

Advertising companies shouldn’t be in the browser business. It’s a really bad conflict of interest. Chromium is a mistake.

Firefox is pretty great. But IMO they have some poor ux defaults that make it unappealing to random people who simply want a browser.

causality0•10m ago

Right. For example, Firefox Mobile doesn't support hitting ctrl+T to open a new tab, completely breaking flow for anyone on a tablet with a keyboard or their phone docked to a monitor.

delduca•5m ago

Droped Chromium browsers and been using Safari with Wipr2, so far the best experience

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