uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

Google's secret plan may bring an instant end to uBOL?

highbaser opened this issue · 7 comments

highbaser commented

So basically Google is phasing out ManifestV2 support a month from now (June 2024). This will result in the automatic disabling of all ManifestV2 extensions, including uBlock Origin, which will immediately result in Google getting lots of ad revenue as tens of millions of computers will start playing Youtube ads. Some of the users will seek an alternative, like uBlock Origin Lite, and turn that on for Youtube. However uBlock Origin Lite doesn't fetch external lists but each version contains the network filters and trusted replace JS scripts. Like the one below.

uBOL-home/chromium/rulesets/scripting/scriptlet/default.trusted-replace-xhr-response.js

Line 45 in b395c00

const argsList = [["\"adPlacements\"","\"no_ads\"","/playlist\\?list=|player\\?|watch\\?v=|youtubei\\/v1\\/player/"],["/\"adPlacements.*?([A-Z]\"\\}|\"\\}{2,4})\\}\\],/","","/playlist\\?list=|player\\?|watch\\?v=|youtubei\\/v1\\/player/"],["/\"adPlacements.*?(\"adSlots\"|\"adBreakHeartbeatParams\")/gms","$1","youtubei/v1/player"],[",\"adFree\":false",",\"adFree\":true","my-info"],["\"ads_disabled\":false","\"ads_disabled\":true","payments"]];

This means as soon as ManifestV2 has been phased out, uBlock Origin instances have been already disabled in Chrome/Chromium browsers, they can introduce a rule into the Web Store ToS that the extension couldn't block ads on Google services, including Youtube. That would bring an end to uBOL as it would violate ToS, so it can't be updated with Youtube filters, nor can it fetch external filters due to restrictions. If this happens, it will mean that the whole ManifestV2->ManifestV3 transition was a plot against uBO itself.

What's your plan for a scenario like this? @gorhill ?

loadstring1 commented

There is no other way than using firefox or any other browser that still supports and maintains manifest V2. Fuck google and their restrictions stop using their chromium browser and they won't get their money from tracking on their users (aka switch to firefox and protest against google once that happens)

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loadstring1 commented

First we need to enlighten chrome users about this and somehow convince them to join this protest and switch over to firefox - thats the hard part of doing it most people will notice that firefox got better adblocking than chrome and most likely will switch and people who are clueless about adblocking will most likely stay on chrome

minhngoc25a commented

In issue #338 of the main uBlock Origin issue tracker, gorhill posted that w3c is bringing back the ability to execute remote code again, and he closed that? It looks somehow managable (or fixed).

krystian3w commented

API agony can be extended with policies ("pretending to be a company/corporation computer"):

uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues#2977 (reply in thread)

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Darin755 commented

Honestly Ublock origin lite should be renamed to Ublock origin crippled edition or something simular. "Lite" implies that it is suppost to be lighter weight but the main purpose of the lite is to get around restrictions.

(Yes I'm aware that lite is suppost to be faster and lighter but the way it stands it is the only option from Chrome)

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krystian3w commented

Possible back to uBo- name: uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues#2261