Re:WebExtensions in Firefox 48
by the8472 on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:03PM
(#11602743)
> 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.
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.