[GeekyBear]

Chrome on Android makes the web completely unusable without having access to uBlock, especially on resource constrained devices.

Chrome on Windows doesn't allow the full version of uBlock Origin that still works on the YouTube website.

It's just Google abusing its browser monopoly in the name of ad revenue.

[bigyabai]

Chrome on Android doesn't support extensions, but Blink does. One of the benefits to allowing modified browser engines.

[GeekyBear]

Google has already shown that they will slowly and methodically use every lever at their disposal to nerf ad blocking, regardless of what the user base thinks.

It's the exact same playbook Microsoft is using to block users from logging onto their own computer without using an online Microsoft account.

Given that Google has already started working to limit sideloading on Android, those days seem limited.

[bigyabai]

Blink is an open source project. If Google updates Chrome and Android to refuse sideloading at all, you can still fork both projects.

Your entire argument relies on a hypothetical you can't prove and doesn't scare anyone. To Android users you sound more like Chicken Little than the Boy who Cried Wolf.

[GeekyBear]

Sure. This is fine.

> Google’s Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-...