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
          124·
          2 months ago2 months 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.

        • DaddleDew
          30·
          2 months ago

          Fennec is a pace in the right direction for that

    • Ogmios
      1110·
      2 months ago

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

      • sheogorath
        202·
        2 months 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.

      • ngwooEnglish
        120·
        2 months ago

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

      • Lemminary
        54·
        2 months ago

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

    • JohnDClay
      32·
      2 months 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
        40·
        2 months 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
        41·
        2 months ago

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

        • JohnDClay
          20·
          2 months ago

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

        • JohnDClay
          10·
          2 months ago

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

        • JohnDClay
          10·
          2 months ago

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

      • Sir_KevinEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        FreeTube is available for Windows and Android. It has SponsorBlock built in as well.