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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Replying to @RichFelker
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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Replying to @CopperheadOS
Seems highly unlikely. It would be a huge shitshow if they did.
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Replying to @RichFelker
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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Replying to @CopperheadOS
Yeah but that's some random new thing from Samsung, not the most popular non-Google browser.
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Replying to @RichFelker
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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Replying to @CopperheadOS @RichFelker
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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Replying to @CopperheadOS @RichFelker
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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Replying to @CopperheadOS
Everything in a browser is sandboxed - it has access to DOM/browser APIs, not Android APIs.
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Replying to @RichFelker
Old-style Firefox extensions weren't sandboxed though. They had full access to all the internals and could call any Java or native APIs. It was just slightly indirect but that was still against the rules. Google just doesn't enforce the rules fairly / consistently for all apps.
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Right. That was a really, REALLY bad idea, and it should rightly have been banned in curated app repositories/stores since it's a backdoor for unsafe/uncurated code to gain privilege.
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