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Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by tristan@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Seirdy@lemmy.ml 3 points 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.