News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by jay_kyburz on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:07PM (#43209126)
How hard would it be to "wrap" the browser in a ublock like shell, so that all network requests are filtered through a firewall before they even reach the chrome application layer.

It might be easier to maintain than an actual extension interface with hooks thought the code.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by ffsm8 on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:15PM (#43211104)
I don't think you'd need manifest V2 for such a rudimenty logic.

The reason why ublock origin is so powerful is because it works with the DOM/not at the network level and can use heuristics to determine wherever something is a advertisement or not.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by jay_kyburz on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:44PM (#43213422)
I imaged you would use both.
[ Parent | on HN ]