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Re:Firefox 68.0 by techntoke on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:33AM (#20399166)
Chrome devs made it clear that just because the API is changing that adblocking will still be supported and it will be faster. Sometimes APIs change.
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Re:Firefox 68.0 by krageon on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:57AM (#20400299)
The API was crippled, not changed. There is a fairly lengthy explanation of how it is bad and why by the author of uBlock Origin: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...
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Re:Firefox 68.0 by sascha_sl on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:16AM (#20399541)
being able to decide for every request with code vs a limited number of patterns you can pre-populate is not an equally useful API replacement
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