YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to Shut Down

Re:YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to... by LinuxBender on Saturday June 17, 2023 @10:37AM (#36370546)

Sadly I suspect that will change. Manifest v3 was added to FF in 109 which is why I am on ESR and will probably stay on it as long as I can. Mozilla get funding from Google and that will probably come with the price of blocking ad-blockers using manifest v3 at some point.

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Re:YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to... by ylyn on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:48AM (#36371233)

AFAIK FF manifest v3 will maintain the webRequest interface.

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Re:YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to... by johnny22 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @12:57PM (#36372005)

they've explicitly said it won't. If somehow that ever changes you'll see huge news about it.

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Re:YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to... by fwn on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:51PM (#36372559)

We've always said the same thing about the Firefox for Android extension ecosystem.

Despite Mozilla's explicit denial of the intention to kill extensions on Android, there is an allow list that effectively bans almost all extensions on Android.

There is no justification for this; extensions work just fine on Firefox for Android, which can be tested using the nightly and jumping through a few artificial hoops.

tl;dr: There's little evidence that there will be any big news once adblockers get finally axed on Firefox.

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