> Blocking ads and nasty JavaScript sites? That is what the computer networking configuration is for.
If everything is behind cloudflare IPs and piped through TLS that gets more difficult.
And you'd have to defeat all the certificate-pinning/sts/etc. security just to filter some stuff.
On the other hand the browser has more knowledge about each request, e.g. whether it's actually intended to be executed as javascript or loaded as an image etc.
Yeah, but the other hand you have Adblockers selling themselves out with exceptions for partner companies.
For me, even though I also do web development now and then, the web should have stayed as interactive hypermedia documents.
What matters are network protocols.
I always use native applications, when given the option.
As such, I never cared for add-ons other than dictionaries.
Blocking ads and nasty JavaScript sites? That is what the computer networking configuration is for.