Is the database of websites installed locally in the extension or is it calling home for every website I visit?

Let’s not build anything because there are no users. There are no users if we don’t build anything.

Duckduckgo’s version is so much better. Unlimited aliases for free.

It’s a trade-off, because they often also want their entire article to be crawled by Google.

Smarttube next doesn’t require rooting the device, it can be sideloaded. Sideloading is not very complicated. Google is not trying to block any sideloading (at the moment, at least).

We don’t see many over here in Europe. I guess real Americans need to do real American work!

Joke aside, vans usually do the job better than trucks.

You can download videos and cut off sponsored moments in the video with sponsorblock.

GrayJay is pretty good!

Alternatively, in a similar fashion. Use “hail” to auto pause any app you want so they don’t run in the background unintended.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aistra.hail/

Firefox’s implementation of manifest v3 doesn’t come with the same restriction as Google’s. Ad blockers will still work with manifest v3 on Firefox (but not on chrome).

This means that all manifest v3 extensions made for Chrome work with Firefox, and almost all manifest v3 extensions made for Firefox will work with Chrome.

They already support manifest v3, but with less restrictions than Chrome’s implementation.

Firefox’s implementation of manifest v3 is a bit different than Chrome’s, and still allows for blocking webrequests with no upper limit.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

It’s complicated.

Link to the mozilla research: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/