Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by fwn on Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:06PM (#38501054)

On Firefox for Android all extensions must be present in the AMO store at the time of installation, no sideloading - even of signed addons.

Mozilla banned non-store extensions in their last Firefox for Android overhaul a few years ago and afaik does not plan to allow them again.

This is the reason why the anti-paywall extensions are all gone/DMCAed.

It's a massive power shift away from the user. No idea why Mozilla did that.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by zarzavat on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:23PM (#38501703)

How do you develop extensions then? Surely it must be possible somehow.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by NBPEL on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:13PM (#38571387)

Not impossible, at all.

The answer is Firefox Nightly or Firefox Developer, you're freely to install unsigned addons in these editions.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by fwn on Sunday December 10, 2023 @07:08AM (#38591003)

> Not impossible, at all. The answer is Firefox Nightly or Firefox Developer, you're freely to install unsigned addons in these editions.

I do use Firefox for Android Nightly. How would I install an unsigned addon there?

I don't think it's possible. ... but if it were, this would be very useful to get the Anti-Paywall addons back.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by NBPEL on Sunday December 10, 2023 @09:37PM (#38597065)

It's called Sideload XPI, iirc Firefox Nightly allows you to sideload XPI if you enable Experimental by tapping Firefox logo in About 7 times.

But it's easier with Ice Raven or Smart Cookie Web Preview:

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by mx20 on Sunday December 03, 2023 @01:13AM (#38505231)

Opera and MS Edge for Android don't support extensions as well. So my guess is, the Playstore rules won't allow it.

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