• nomemory@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    By reading through the article I see that Firefox is going to support adblocking techniques, while Chrome is going to remove them.

    Am I missing something?

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      2 years ago

      Yeah, I don’t get why the rest of the comments here are shooting against both. Firefox is 100% doing the right thing here.

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      2 years ago

      The reality is more nuanced than this. Wrote up my thoughts on my blog: A layered approach to content blocking.

      Strictly speaking about content filtering: declarativeNetRequest is honestly a good thing for like 80% of websites. But there’s that 20% that’ll need privileged extensions. Content blocking should use a layered approach that lets users selectively enable a more privileged layer. Chromium will instead be axing the APIs required for that privileged layer; Firefox’s permission system is too coarse to support a layered approach.