Google's Manifest V3 update to the Chrome Extensions API disabled the webRequestBlocking permission, preventing ad blockers such as uBlock Origin from functioning, with Google citing performance reaso…
Google's Manifest V3 update to Chromium has disabled the full uBlock Origin extension in Chrome and Edge, replacing the blocking webRequest API with the rule-limited declarativeNetRequest API, a chang…
AliExpress, the e-commerce platform owned by Alibaba Group, has been found running silent audio processes in users' browsers to fingerprint and track devices, according to researchers. The code, linke…
UBlock Origin's volunteer filter maintainers have stopped producing fixes for Facebook ads, concluding that Meta Platforms Inc. can counter their open-source filters faster than they can maintain them…
DuckDuckGo announced that its free browser now blocks most YouTube video ads by default on iPhone, Windows, and Mac, with Android support coming soon. The feature uses community-driven filter lists fr…
Users on Privacy Guides forum warn against using Ublock DNS, a service promoted by the same person behind the unofficial ublockorigin.com fansite, citing lack of trustworthiness and affiliation with t…
A developer created a uBlock Origin filter to hide AI features in Jira, targeting elements like platform-ai, ai-mate, and ai-agent on atlassian.net.…