this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a big reason Google wanted to push the whole “web integrity” thing. There would have been no way to use an adblocker after that and they would have won the blocking wars. It’s bad enough they’re gimping Chromium with Manifest v3, but they tried for it all.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp They are still cooking it, for now only on android as to boil the frog slowly but it will come back.

[–] glorious_albus 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wait what are they doing on Android?

[–] takeda 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adding that stuff to Android, so if you don't have the genuine YouTube app the server won't even serve you the videos. It is meant to kill things like ReVanced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YouTube works fine in Firefox on Android with ublock origin

[–] takeda 3 points 1 year ago

I was talked about AdNauseum. Unlike uBO it is not up to speed with YouTube changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Adding attestation crap to WebView