Smarttube next doesn’t require rooting the device, it can be sideloaded. Sideloading is not very complicated. Google is not trying to block any sideloading (at the moment, at least).

LibreTube is also a good one. Basically an app for piped

https://community.brave.com/t/psa-current-faq/464018/30

Browsers based on chromium do not have to follow exactly what the main branch is doing. If they want to keep supporting MV2 or support different rules for MV3, they can. Albeit it’s a bit cumbersome.

Unfortunately, I think that while ad blockers won’t work as well, they will still work good enough that most won’t bother making the switch.

https://blog.getadblock.com/how-adblock-is-getting-ready-for-manifest-v3-6cf21a7884f6

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-mv3.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1067als/comment/j3h00xj/

The main issue I see is the slow update of filters (which require an extension update). This might make YouTube win the cat and mouse game. Where YouTube updates(ed?) their blocking detection multiple time a day.

Alternatively, in a similar fashion. Use “hail” to auto pause any app you want so they don’t run in the background unintended.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aistra.hail/

Firefox’s implementation of manifest v3 doesn’t come with the same restriction as Google’s. Ad blockers will still work with manifest v3 on Firefox (but not on chrome).

This means that all manifest v3 extensions made for Chrome work with Firefox, and almost all manifest v3 extensions made for Firefox will work with Chrome.

They already support manifest v3, but with less restrictions than Chrome’s implementation.

Firefox’s implementation of manifest v3 is a bit different than Chrome’s, and still allows for blocking webrequests with no upper limit.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

It’s complicated.

It would be crazy expensive to run an attack of this size for years.

There is no way a DDoS on the website in affecting the crawler. Also, running a DDoS attack of this size costs a lot of money (if you rent the network, if you own it it costs money as lost sales). No one is giving AI control over a DDoS network to just fuck around.

There is no domain name associated with the IPs.

Most importantly, usually, DDoS attacks use infected devices (PCs, mobile phones, smart fridges, shady browser addons etc…) to get many ip addresses and devices/locations and attack from everywhere at once.

“it could happen here” posted in “world news” 😂

Link to the mozilla research: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/