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Re:System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and ... by 1231232131231 on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:16PM (#38525266)
If you really wanted/NEEDED this, you could definitely go through all the code. It would take a bit, but it's doable with determination (lol). Also, you don't have to necessarily review all of the code every update. All you have to do is view the changes/new commits every time you want to update.

The hardest part is determining that you want to go through all of this hassle to replicate something browser extensions already do (for the most part).

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Re:System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and ... by lxgr on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:38PM (#38527158)
If you believe you can find even just all unintentional bugs, let alone deliberate security vulnerabilities, you've never looked at the underhanded C contest [1].

> All you have to do is view the changes/new commits every time you want to update.

These can be thousands of lines of code per day in busy projects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhanded_C_Contest

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