Does uBlock Origin still work on Microsoft Edge?

Not the full version. Edge began retiring Manifest V2 extensions in August 2026, finishing for consumers by the end of the year and for managed devices in early 2027. uBlock Origin Lite, a Manifest V3 extension from the same developer, is available on Edge instead. Firefox and Brave still run the full version — Brave hosts Manifest V2 extensions on its own servers.

Will my Edge ad blocker stop working?

Only if it was still built on Manifest V2. Microsoft says just 58 MV2 extensions with meaningful usage remained in the Edge store, and only three of those had no MV3 version, so most widely-used blockers already made the transition. If yours is switched off you'll usually see a browser notice, and the extension will appear greyed out at edge://extensions.

Is Edge's built-in tracking prevention enough on its own?

It blocks a portion of trackers but is not an ad blocker — you'll still see ads with it set to Strict. The two work independently, so running tracking prevention alongside an ad blocker extension is fine and doesn't cause conflicts.

Do Chrome extensions still work on Edge?

Yes — Edge is Chromium-based and can install extensions from the Chrome Web Store after you allow it once. Where an extension has its own Edge Add-ons listing, use that instead; it's the version tested against Edge.

Is it worth running more than one ad blocker on Edge?

No, and on Manifest V3 there's a concrete reason beyond the usual advice about conflicts. Chromium guarantees each extension 30,000 static blocking rules and anything above that comes from a pool shared across all installed extensions, so stacking blockers can mean none of them registers its full rule set.

Best Ad Blockers for Microsoft Edge — Top 5

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Microsoft Edge is built on Chromium, so it supports most Chrome extensions. You can install ad blockers from both the Edge Add-ons store and the Chrome Web Store.

Top 5 Ad Blockers for Edge

1. DNDShield

Full ad, tracker, and popup blocking
Video ad skip on streaming platforms
Clean popup UI designed for simplicity
Filter rules built from EasyList, EasyPrivacy and AdGuard’s lists
Works natively on Edge (Chromium)

2. uBlock Origin

Most configurable ad blocker
Advanced users can create custom rules
Available on Edge Add-ons store
Note: Manifest V3 Lite version has fewer features

3. AdGuard

Good Edge integration
Available on Edge Add-ons store
Stealth mode for anti-tracking
Paid desktop app available for system-wide blocking

4. AdBlock Plus

Popular and well-known
Simple interface
Shows "Acceptable Ads" by default (can be disabled)

5. Ghostery

Focused on tracker blocking
Shows tracker details per page
Privacy-first approach

What changed on Edge in 2026

Edge started retiring Manifest V2 extensions in August 2026. The rollout moves through the Canary, Dev and Beta channels before reaching Stable, and Microsoft expects consumer devices to be done by the end of 2026, with managed and enterprise devices following in early 2027.

For most people this passes without incident — by Microsoft's own count only 58 Manifest V2 extensions with meaningful usage were still in the Edge store, and only three of those had no Manifest V3 version available. Almost everything widely used made the move some time ago.

The exception is the one that matters here: uBlock Origin. The full version depends on the older blocking webRequest API that Manifest V3 removes, so on Edge it's replaced by uBlock Origin Lite — a separate extension from the same developer, built for MV3. uBO Lite blocks well and isn't a hollowed-out version, but it is narrower in specific ways: no dynamic filtering, and no per-site rule editing of the kind uBO's power users rely on.

If that fine-grained control is the reason you used uBlock Origin, it doesn't carry over to Edge. Firefox and Brave both still run the full version — Brave hosts Manifest V2 extensions on its own servers — so switching browsers is a legitimate answer, and worth saying plainly rather than pretending Edge is the only option.

What to look for in an Edge ad blocker now

With Manifest V2 gone, every blocker on Edge is working within the same platform rules, so the differences are narrower than they used to be. What still separates them:

Built for MV3, not ported to it. An extension designed around declarativeNetRequest from the start has no legacy behaviour to lose. One adapted from MV2 may have quietly dropped features on the way across.
Video-platform handling. In-player ads on YouTube, Twitch and similar aren't a network-blocking problem, so filter lists alone don't address them regardless of manifest version.
Popup and redirect protection. Redirect-based attacks now account for roughly two-thirds of malicious ads, and that's handled by page-level logic rather than by rule count.
Rule budget behaviour. Chromium guarantees each extension 30,000 static rules; beyond that it draws from a pool shared with every other extension installed. On a browser with several extensions, a very large rule set may not fully register — which is a real argument for running one content blocker rather than three, and applies to DNDShield as much as to anything else. See What is Manifest V3.

How to Install on Edge

From Edge Add-ons Store:

Open edge://extensions
Click Get extensions for Microsoft Edge
Search for the ad blocker name
Click Get → Add extension

From Chrome Web Store:

Go to chrome.google.com/webstore
Edge will ask "Allow extensions from other stores" — click Allow
Search and install

Edge's Built-in Tracking Prevention

Edge has built-in tracking prevention (not ad blocking):

Go to edge://settings/privacy
Choose Strict under Tracking prevention

This blocks some trackers but not ads. You still need an extension for ad blocking.

FAQ

Is Edge better than Chrome for privacy? Edge's tracking prevention is better than Chrome's defaults. But for full protection, you still need an ad blocker extension on both browsers.

Do Edge extensions use more memory? No. Edge handles extensions the same way Chrome does (same Chromium engine).

Does the Browser Actually Matter Here?

Not as much as you'd think. Edge runs on the same Chromium engine as Chrome, so every extension in this list behaves close to identically on both — same rule engine, same Manifest V3 limitations, same performance characteristics. If you've already read a Chrome-focused comparison and formed an opinion, that opinion carries over to Edge basically unchanged.

The one place Edge genuinely differs is its built-in tracking prevention, which is a notch more aggressive than Chrome's out of the box — see the section above. It still doesn't touch ads, though, so the extension choice matters just as much as it does on Chrome.

If you're comparing across browsers, Best Ad Blockers for Chrome covers the same extensions with Chrome-specific notes, and Best Ad Blockers for Firefox is worth a look if Firefox is in the mix too — it isn't bound by Manifest V3 the same way Chromium browsers are, so a couple of the trade-offs above don't apply there.