Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
  • Google is transitioning Chrome’s extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
  • This means users won’t be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
  • However, there’s a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn’t boast the original version’s comprehensive ad-blocking features.
        • circuscritic
          8•1 month ago

          I’m not saying to never use Firefox Android forks, but the reality is that Chromium forks are significantly more secure on Android, such as Mulch (same dev as Mull) and Chromite (Bromite fork).

          Again, I am talking security, not privacy, and specifically for Android.

          Here is a good write up on the topic from the developer of the Mull and Mulch browsers:

          https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

          For desktop there are a lot of good Firefox forks, such as Mullvad’s Browser, Librewolf, & Waterfox. If a website needs Chrome to work, I just use Vivaldi or Ungoogled Chromium.

          Edit: I’ve made this point a few times, and always with lots of downvotes, just kind of funny. Especially when I provided a technical write-up from the developer of a security focused distro (DivestOS) as well as two popular security focused Android browsers (Mull and Mulch), but hey, maybe you all know better than he does.

    • Ogmios
      1•1 month ago

      Yea, I’m just waiting for the bomb to go off when Mozilla inevitably ends up following Google’s example.

      • @[email protected]
        18•1 month ago

        Thankfully, Firefox is open-source, so we can just use one of the forks, or perhaps Ladybird will be ready for general release by that time.

      • @[email protected]English
        12•1 month ago

        Firefox already adopted manifest V3 but specifically kept the features needed for adblockers

      • Lemminary
        1•1 month ago

        Yep, I’m watching intently with the shit they’ve been doing.

    • @JohnDClay
      1•1 month ago

      YouTube isn’t playing on Firefox with Ublock for me either. I’ll need to go through and reinstall my extensions, but I couldn’t find the root cause so far, I’d just been using chrome with ublock for YouTube and Firefox for everything else.

      • Frellwit
        4•1 month ago

        Make sure jnn-pa.googleapis.com isn’t blocked anywhere in your network. It may perhaps be blocked in a filter list you have activated in uBO, DNS, VPN, Firewall, anti-virus, Firefox enhanced tracking protection, etc.

      • Zier
        3•1 month ago

        Try NewPipe or a fork of that for YouTube on Android.

        • @JohnDClay
          2•1 month ago

          It doesn’t have recommendations or ability to comment does it? And ReVanced is still working for me on Android.

        • @JohnDClay
          1•1 month ago

          As for grey jay, I haven’t had time to compile it yet. ReVanced is working well for me.

        • @JohnDClay
          1•1 month ago

          But that wouldn’t have comments or updating recommendations, right?