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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by DyslexicAtheist on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:55AM (#16519495)
you can do it quite effectively outside the browser using a host block[1] list or pi-hole. my uBlock now only fires sporadically for cases I don't catch with the /etc/hosts approach (e.g. disallowing e.g. remote fonts)

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by codedokode on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:39AM (#16519878)
Many years ago Opera had a blacklist for URLs with wildcard support that was implemented in a native code, not HTML/JS. I used to use it then.
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