From PC World: Remember how one of the best adblockers, uBlock Origin, was effectively killed by Google Chrome? It’s happening again, and this time on Microsoft Edge.
Throughout 2024 and 2025, Google said that it was migrating its extension support from what is called Manifest, from version 2 to version 3. Now Microsoft says that it is following Google’s lead, and beginning that transition as well.
Ads stink, and anyone who says that they don’t affect productivity has never turned off an adblocker and tried to surf a major media site, including our own.
Microsoft’s perspective is that the shift is one that will provide its Edge browser a “secure and performant extensions foundation.” Anyone who’s used the Web, however, knows that this is an issue of productivity: ads drag down performance, slow down your productivity, and even cut into the available memory your PC uses for other tasks. Adblockers help reduce or eliminate those ads, keeping your PC running efficiently.
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