Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
by taneq on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:39AM
(#36876664)
Is that the one that harangues you any time you load a page with non-GPL'd JavaScript on it? Because that was incredibly annoying.
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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
by nfriedly on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:58AM
(#36878771)
Nope, I've never seen that. Iceraven is just Firefox for Android with more extensions enabled, about:config support, and a couple of other minor annoyances fixed.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
by taneq on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:09AM
(#36893795)
Wait, the post says iceweasel but the link is iceraven, are they the same thing? This was on the default browser one of the times I tried LineageOS, this was back in 2019 or so. I could be misremembering the specific fork.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
by nfriedly on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:37AM
(#36894275)
I found this about iceweasel, which inclines me to believe that you remembered it correctly, and the grandparent was just mistaken about the name:
> In August 2005,[11] the GNUzilla project adopted the GNU IceWeasel name for a rebranded distribution of Firefox that made no references to nonfree plugins.
> [...]
> The GNU LibreJS extension detects and blocks non-free non-trivial JavaScript.