Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by Zak on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:47AM (#43204603)

A quick look at the code gives me the impression that webRequestBlocking is a fairly trivial modification to webRequest, and they seem to be keeping the latter. This leads me to two conclusions: it wouldn't be terribly hard for a fork maintainer to keep webRequestBlocking, and Google's technical excuses for removing it are disingenuous.

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Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by justinclift on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:28AM (#43204877)

> ... and Google's technical excuses for removing it are disingenuous.

That's been the default assumption of pretty much everyone anyway.

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Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by account42 on Monday March 03, 2025 @05:28AM (#43240359)

That may be true now but will it still be true when Google next refactors their request code under the assumption that no requirements for a webRequestBlocking API exist.

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