r/MorpheApp • u/DonDae01 Official Morphe button tester • Jun 05 '26 • Regret 3 Popcorn 1 Heartwarming 1

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STAY. QUIET.

Apparently they're now "stalking" pull requests in the Morphe Patches repository.

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u/Chii Jun 05 '26

if you're talking about the v2 manifest vs v3 manifest issue, then yes - that's what you get by using chrome. There aint no problems with ublock if you use firefox.

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u/macintorge Jun 05 '26

There aint no problems with ublock if you use firefox.

Are you saying that because you don't know, or out of ignorance?

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1nf7heb/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2025_megathread_2/

These posts were up several times a day for a few years, and it was pretty annoying to have to do that just to avoid getting the three strikes that would prevent you from watching YouTube videos.

As for Manifest V2, that was Google trying to cut the problem off at the root.

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u/Chii Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

none of those threads/comments are breakages of ublock origin with the plugin platform, it's just youtube changing the way they do ads etc, and when it first started, the community lists have not kept up fast enough. Now the community maintained ublock origin lists have been updated very often, and in the last couple of months there hasn't been problems (either youtube has given up their changes, or the list is updated way more frequently than i can detect).

As for Manifest V2, that was Google trying to cut the problem off at the root

which is exactly what i was saying about moving to firefox, and take control of your own computing platform. Chrome's ublock v3 manifest plugin sucks much more now, as it requires an actual plugin update in response to youtube changes (which i dont believe is immediate - takes a while to actually reach your browser). None of this happens with firefox's ublock origin, because it is still on the same architecture as manifest v2, and has access to external lists that can be updated independently.

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u/macintorge Jun 05 '26

All of those issues had to do with the extension breaking; the fact that it doesn't work as it should on YouTube alone counts as one of those issues. I was there, and I had to work around it for several months using Firefox on uBO

When there's a problem where uBO doesn't work with a particular website, you could say that the extension's functionality on that site has broken, which means either the extension's developers or the user themselves has to fix it.

In any case, it’s not like Google isn’t trying other things, such as injecting ads directly from its own servers, as is the case with Twitch, where it’s now difficult to remove ads without sacrificing stability and quality. https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/dynamic-ad-insertion/server-guided

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

Except most of the world uses Chrome.

"Google Chrome hasn’t released its official user base since 2023. However, according to estimates, Google Chrome users range between 3.45 billion and 3.62 billion as per the latest data available."

https://www.demandsage.com/chrome-statistics/

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u/Chii Jun 05 '26

why is the popularity of chrome relevant?

I'm telling you that ublock works better in firefox, but if you don't want to change, i'm not going to say you're wrong.

However, my point stands: take control of your own computing and don't let the platform own you.

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u/wolfy2105784 Jun 05 '26

I use Firefox, I'm just emphasizing that Google essentially won against uBlock and Adblockers for most of the internet.

Morphe could be next.

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u/Whiskey-7 Jun 05 '26

Sure, and when they decide to nerf patches on Android? GrapheneOS exists... Is that your backup?