This is an utter shitshow, and if Google doesn't back down on it, Chrome should be made irrelevant.https://twitter.com/antumbral/status/996836266766303232 …
I think a simple extension could break the API (preventing YT from detecting it's in the background) in Firefox, couldn't it?
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There's https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ … for that but it's quite possible Google would kick them off the Play Store if they knew Mozilla approved and even featured this.
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Seems highly unlikely. It would be a huge shitshow if they did.
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They do stuff like this all the time though: https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/01/google-explicitly-bans-ad-blockers-from-the-play-store-except-all-those-ad-blocking-web-browsers-apparently/ …. They removed an ad-blocker for Samsung's browser too (not an OS level ad-blocker):https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10905672/google-samsung-adblock-fast-android-ad-blocker-removal …
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Yeah but that's some random new thing from Samsung, not the most popular non-Google browser.
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It seems Samsung's mistake was making it separate from the browser app which Google currently leaves alone, i.e. they'd remove the Firefox extension if it was distributed via the Play Store.
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However, for non-browser apps, they often do hold them responsible for plugins / extensions they officially make available. Firefox has historically gotten away with blatantly breaking the usual rules for plugins/extensions. It's only supposed to be allowed if they're sandboxed.
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If they aren't sandboxed, they're supposed to be distributed via the Play Store. See https://play.google.com/about/privacy-security-deception/malicious-behavior/ … for one place where they state that rule. 'does not apply to code that runs in a virtual machine and has limited access to Android APIs' - i.e. not old-style ffx exts
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Everything in a browser is sandboxed - it has access to DOM/browser APIs, not Android APIs.
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