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Re:Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time... by jasonvorhe on Sunday June 23, 2019 @05:31AM (#20254191)
It doesn't. The amount of rules you can stick in a Chrome extension is sufficient to block the majority of spam. Current block lists are mostly redundant and unoptimized.
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Re:Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time... by bouk on Sunday June 23, 2019 @06:25AM (#20254483)
This is true! Running extension JS on every request is a big performance penalty and rule based blocking is much better.
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