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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by swiley on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:33PM (#24712995)
> The user agent will still be able to choose what to display,

Will it? Even on Mozilla Firefox (which fewer and fewer sites are tested against) you're pretty limited in controlling this. I have zero faith that google will keep that working in chrome

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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by Liquid_Fire on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:46AM (#24717504)
Can you clarify how you are limited? I can block anything I want using uBlock Origin today in Firefox.

Admittedly sites could switch to rendering everything in JavaScript using canvas or WebGL. But so far no one is resorting to this, because you have to effectively reimplement big chunks of the browser. Maybe one day there will be a JS framework that does this, but then it will be easy for adblockers to target that specific framework.

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