We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the …

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    It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.

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      Also all the ad blocking extensions would have to continue maintaining forks of their own projects for increasingly obscure manifest V2 Chromium browsers.

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        Google: We changed a color

        Fork Developer: they changed a color and it caused 50,000 breaking changes that a diff tool can’t handle automatically wtf.

        Google: sorry wrong color here’s a new one

        Fork developer: another 100,000 breaking changes that a diff can’t handle?!?!