AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by userbinator on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:47AM (#32650357)

I hope filtering proxies like Proxomitron become popular again. They'll work on all browsers, and as long as locked-down corporate environments with their own needs for filtering content and the requirement to go through a proxy exist, it's not something they can easily kill off (despite trying their hardest to do so with all the "security" propaganda.)

Stop being at the whims of the Google-controlled browser monopoly --- by filtering content before it gets there.

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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by pkulak on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:49AM (#32651803)

Man, I used Privoxy back in the day and it was amazing. Now, however, you need to set up custom certs so that you can MITM yourself, plus those things can only look at the initial HTML without running any JS. I don't know how less effective that would make filtering, but it can't help.

I'd love to be proven wrong though! Right now I run DNS-based filtering because, no, it's not perfect, but I really like having network-wide blocking.

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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by zzo38computer on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:39PM (#32683640)

Still, that you will need to MITM yourself is rather inefficient; it would be better for the proxy setting to include a "non-tunneling" option that you can set, instead.

Not being able to look at scripts is another issue, although at least for some purposes you may be able to inject scripts which change the JavaScript objects in order to disable or change some features.

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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by userbinator on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:45PM (#32657760)

You can do filtering on the JS itself, which of course includes injecting your own JS into the page too.

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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by hackernudes on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:11AM (#32651414)

Proxy and ssl doesn't work for filtering (basically the same as dns).

Maybe some sort of "remote browser" remote desktop or browser-in-browser type thing will work.

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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by Dwedit on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:28AM (#32651587)

You can still install a certificate, and that will let you "man-in-the-middle" attack yourself with proxy server programs.

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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by guilhas on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @02:05PM (#32653247)

Proxomitron was amazing, very advanced, and even worked with ssl. All preceding proxy apps were very weak

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