Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript

Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by teruakohatu on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:55PM (#38045910)

> I'm confused how the "inner browser" meaningfully helps you accomplish this.

Right not it is not hard to write an adblocker, just block network requests and DOM elements (regardless of whom hosts of proxies them).

A browser in a browser would make blocking dom as hard as attaching a debugger and manipulating a price that has been hardened.

Network requests may still be able to be blocked, but it is going to make ad blocking harder.

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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by cplusplusfellow on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:26PM (#38046837)

Would be amazing for advertisers but no users would visit the site.

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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by Intralexical on Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:26AM (#38050529)

I can't wait until this Browser-on-JS/WASM-on-Canvas loads an IFrame from a site that also has its own Browser-on-JS/WASM-on-Canvas.

Hell, the inner IFrame is probably going to get around IFrame recursion and domain rules too.

We're going to eventually end up with IFrame fork bombs, and IFrame topologies that cannot be meaningfully mapped to Euclidean space (amongst all the other privacy, user control, etc. concerns, of course).

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