Will the New Google Chrome Update Brick Your Adblocker?

Ad blockers: it's how you can actually read articles on the internet without the content you came for being buried under popup ads that you ABSOLUTELY DID NOT COME ~~HERE~~ TO THAT WEBSITE FOR. How bleeping frustrating is it to be forced to wait for a full-screen popup ad to finish failing to convince you to actively never use their product in direct defiance of their invasive marketing practices--when you're just trying to be entertained for a few minutes? So we install ad blockers to make internet scrolling sane again.

Welp, Google Chrome's latest update might render your favorite ad blocker "bricked" (i.e. useless), because...bleep you, I guess?

Google Chrome's Latest Update Might Brick Your Ad Blocker

WHY DO YOU ALL SUCK?! (Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash)

Google's excuse for bricking your ad blocker is that they're transitioning to a new system that'll offer gooder security and privacy, and not all browser extensions will work with it.

BOOOOOOOOO.

How To Check if Your Extensions Will Work With the New Chrome Update

Open Chrome
Click on the three dots in the top-right corner
Choose "Extensions"
Choose "Manage Extensions"

If an extension won't work with the update, it'll be at the top of the screen under the line, "This extension may soon no longer be supported."

Similar extensions are likely available, but they might not nearly as good. And even if your favorite ad blocker is spared from total bricking, it might not block as many popups as it used to...and all of that is today's Sign of the Apocalypse. Thanks, Google!