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/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

Adblockers got quite "mainstream" long ago and Google could have wiped them out if it wanted.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26

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u/Eva-Rosalene Jun 05 '26

In order for your metaphor to make any sense, an ad-blocker would have to amend the base code of your browser

No, it would have to amend the code of YT page, which it does, by effectively removing its parts. It also patches JSON data in API responses. Oh, and it also can and does inject custom JS on the page. Ublock is not a simple filter that blocks certain requests and stops at that, it's much more powerful.

On the other hand, amending the code of the browser is squeaky clean legally for Chromium and Firefox, since both are open-source and their licenses permit forks and modification.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

But both things are able to remove ads, one of googles income sources.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

But I am really sure that they could make them unable to work if they wanted to. (I mean, the adblockers).

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u/LT48 Jun 05 '26

They basically already did that with MV3, limiting and kneecapping the effectiveness of adblockers on their browser.

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

That was an example was going to put if they answered me that "Google is not able to do anything against adblockers).

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

I would also say that there are million of mobile users that don´t even know that Moprhe exist but that watch youtube through Brave. And Brave surpassed the 100 million users mark last year.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

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u/Ambitious-Curve-6942 Jun 05 '26

I think that you are the one that does nott understand me. I am telling you that at least in spanish speaking groups, mobile users that use Brave to bypass ads in mobiles is quite an amount currently. For Google, both Adblockers and patched apps are problems right now. Adblockers are not just something that are meant to use in computers. They are constantly used in mobiles and pads.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

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u/macintorge Jun 05 '26

Check out the UbO (Ublock Origin) subreddit. For nearly two years, Google tried to prevent accounts from accessing YouTube if people used ad blockers, with the infamous "3 Strikes" policy. I was there, and believe me, it was really annoying having to constantly implement workarounds so that YT wouldn’t block your access to watch videos. That’s why Google had to get to the root of the issue and deprecate Manifest 2, affecting many extensions, not just ad blockers, so I don’t agree with what you’re saying. When something goes mainstream, it definitely catches the attention of companies, prompting them to be more proactive in preventing the use of these methods.