It's most likely watching Youtube with your VPN that's broken then, not NewPipe. Youtube implemented Captchas for IPs that generate a lot of traffic/a lot of people are using. That's how they are trying to kill frontends like invidious that proxy the requests. NewPipe by default uses your own IP so it doesn't have that problem. If you use a VPN IP that a lot of others are using too, you'll get that same problem though.

What the uBlock dev actually said:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/wiki/About-Google-Chrome's-%22This-extension-may-soon-no-longer-be-supported%22

Manifest v2 uBO will not be automatically replaced by Manifest v3 uBOL[ight]. uBOL is too different from uBO for it to silently replace uBO -- you will have to explicitly make a choice as to which extension should replace uBO according to your own prerogatives.

Ultimately whether uBOL is an acceptable alternative to uBO is up to you, it's not a choice that will be made for you.

Will development of uBO continue? Yes, there are other browsers which are not deprecating Manifest v2, e.g. Firefox.

Becoming an ad company while trying to put privacy first seems like a conflict of interests in the making

Funny how companies believe they are punishing you by withholding AI crap nobody wants.

Unless you are dangerously close to a non-EU country and can't reliably prevent your phone from connecting to its networks

What makes you think it's plastered onto the business and not put up by the business-owners themselves?

Chasing endless growth in a dating app is missing the point of a dating app

We should make it illegal too!

That's because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.

I have had to spend so much more time thinking about drivers on Windows than on Linux it's not even funny

What kind of maniac posts a screenshot of their code instead of the code itself to ask for help tho

Wtf did I just not read because the text was unreadable