There seemed to be a lot of fuss about Manifest V3 last year generally across all chrome based browsers and ad-blocking, but I can't seem to find much follow up about what's definitely happening come January 2023 in just 6 months time?

Is it time to dump chrome and switch to firefox already? Or has edge, vivaldi etc.. decided to keep adblockers like uBlockOrigin alive?

uBlockOrigin causing Twitch to be unusable?

I have uBlockOrigin with the script that was on the big Twitch thread from a few months ago and now every time I go on Twitch the player is just black with a loading symbol in the middle of the screen. Is this happening to anyone else?

So, i'm just thinking thinking what would be the best browsers options to continue using uO for blocking ads.

Are there any examples of uBlock working in a GitHub Action or another cloud service?

I'm working on an open source project to archive news homepages (https://homepages.news) from around the world. It uses Playwright to fire up a Chrome browser.

The main blocker to expanding the system is the wide variety of popups, ads and other interference that appear on commercial sites of this sort.

I'm trying to integrate uBlock's extension into my Playwright browser automation routine, and failing pretty hard. It all works fine in my localhost environment on my laptop, but I'm struggling to get a GitHub Action to run it in the cloud. It'll take the shot, but the extension doesn't seem to be used in the cloud environment. Here's the code:

https://github.com/palewire/news-homepages/blob/ad-blocking/newshomepages/screenshot.py

I'm seeking any examples where others have had success in automating the use of uBlock in cloud deployments. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Washington Post Hides Rest of Article

Hello, I'm wondering if there's a workaround to this issue.

It seems like articles from Washington Post now only show the preview (1-3 paragraphs of the full story) under the blocked subscription dialogue. I can get the media player to read the full article to me, and sometimes when first loading the page I can see more of the article for a split second. I'm wondering if it's possible to still access this, or if they're performing an unavoidable check that makes the rest of the article inaccessible.

Firefox Deployment works fine. Adminsettings just work on my own pc.

Hey folks,

I've deployed the addon by copying policy.json (Firefox\Enterprise Settings\distribution\policies.json) to our devices. After a restart of firefox the addon will be loaded/installed.
The .json simply looks like this.

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate": true,
    "DisableFeedbackCommands": true,
    "DisableFirefoxStudies": true,
    "DisablePocket": true,
    "DisableSetDesktopBackground": true,
    "DisableTelemetry": true,
    "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true,
    "ExtensionSettings": {
      "*": {
        "installation_mode": "allowed"
      },
      "[email protected]": {
        "install_url": "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3933192/ublock_origin-1.42.4.xpi",
        "installation_mode": "force_installed"
      }
    },
    "NoDefaultBookmarks": true,
    "Proxy": {
      "AutoLogin": true,
      "Mode": "autoDetect",
      "SOCKSVersion": 4,
      "UseHTTPProxyForAllProtocols": true,
      "UseProxyForDNS": false
    }
  }
}

Now comes my problem - already lost myself in several other threads. Didn't find a solution.

I want to deploy the addon with adminsettings like https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2986#issuecomment-364035002 .

Works perfectly fine on MY computer(Yes, I created the registry key). Nobody else gets it to work. Other computers don't load adminsettings.json - even when saved locally.

My adminsettings.json:

{
	"name": "[email protected]",
	"description": "ignored",
	"type": "storage",
	"data": {
		"adminSettings": "{\"userSettings\":{\"contextMenuEnabled\":false,\"popupPanelSections\":31,\"showIconBadge\":false,\"tooltipsDisabled\":true},\"selectedFilterLists\":[\"user-filters\",\"assets.json\",\"public_suffix_list.dat\",\"ublock-badlists\",\"ublock-filters\",\"ublock-badware\",\"ublock-privacy\",\"ublock-abuse\",\"ublock-unbreak\",\"ublock-quick-fixes\",\"easylist\",\"easyprivacy\",\"urlhaus-1\",\"plowe-0\",\"DEU-0\"],\"hiddenSettings\":{},\"whitelist\":[\"about-scheme\",\"chrome-extension-scheme\",\"chrome-scheme\",\"edge-scheme\",\"moz-extension-scheme\",\"opera-scheme\",\"proofpointessentials.com\",\"vivaldi-scheme\",\"wyciwyg-scheme\"],\"dynamicFilteringString\":\"behind-the-scene * * noop\\nbehind-the-scene * inline-script noop\\nbehind-the-scene * 1p-script noop\\nbehind-the-scene * 3p-script noop\\nbehind-the-scene * 3p-frame noop\\nbehind-the-scene * image noop\\nbehind-the-scene * 3p noop\",\"urlFilteringString\":\"\",\"hostnameSwitchesString\":\"no-large-media: behind-the-scene false\\nno-csp-reports: * true\",\"userFilters\":\"\"}"
	}
}

Can anybody help me here?