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Re:Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-r... on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:25PM (#47694255)
How is the Boox Note 7 in regards to reading PDFs?
Re:Show HN: logitall – Dumbtrace your entire app with console.logs() on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:47AM (#26671839)
I definitely have a need for this, thank you.
Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to create desktop adblocker app that hooks i... on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:37PM (#26571948)
I am writing this reply in Firefox. However, there are websites that only work in Google Chrome and a bunch of other smaller reasons that I still would like to use Chrome for. In fact, the desktop adblocker could also be used for Firefox as well, which I think would be more performant than an extension-based adblocker.

Ask HN: Is it possible to create desktop adblocker app that hooks into Chrome

Posted by hibiscus4156 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.

With the advent of Google Chrome's v3 extension manifest which will stop Ublock Origin from working in its current state, I was wondering if its possible to create a desktop adblocker program that hooks deeply into Google Chrome to provide similar functionality? It would be great if people deeply familiar with desktop development could share their feedback on the matter.To clarify, I know we...

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Re:Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:47PM (#24323995)
> Why did you choose to use electron for something so specific to MacOS?

I think you're mistaken. OP is referring to Discord as the webkit/electron app.

Re:Ask HN: As a dev, what are the major anti-competitive issues with A... on Sunday June 21, 2020 @02:13PM (#23593946)
Not exactly relevant but thought you may find interesting. https://youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com/
Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite podcasts? on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:32PM (#22982607)
Steve Gibson’s Security Now. grc.com/sn.
Re:The Svelte Compiler Handbook on Sunday April 05, 2020 @12:38PM (#22786569)
Funny you mention this, Evan You, the author of VueJS was a graphic designer before writing VueJS