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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
(www.windowscentral.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Do you know if this is at the chrome or chromium level?
Chromium. However other chromium browser's have said they'll either patch it to keep manifest V2 compatibility, or they won't but you can still use their inbuilt ad-blocking.