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53 | 353 | |
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7.2 | 8.4 | |
about 2 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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example-chrome-extension
- Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
- Google authentication in Chrome extension
- Newbie developer
- Let's build a Chrome extension that steals everything
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Any good tutorial or course to learn chrome extensions dev
Shameless plug: I was totally dissatisfied with the state of extension documentation and tutorials, so I wrote a book on building Chrome extensions: https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/
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For your next side project, make a browser extension
I was enthusiastic enough about extensions that I decided to publish a book about building them: https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/
Browser extensions are severely underrated as a platform because they aren't sexy. For all that mobile devices have given us, so much of our work continues to be done using a desktop browser. Enhancements such as augmenting websites with widgets, supplying contextual information, and automating repetitive tasks using the authenticated session - when applied appropriately - can save someone hours every day.
- Learn to create modern Chrome extensions with React, OAuth, and manifest v3
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Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?
Browser extensions. Not quite a website, not quite a mobile app, and surprisingly pervasive. Most people don't realize how incredibly powerful they are, even with manifest v3.
I almost fell out of my chair when I found out there were no books on how to build them, so I wrote one: https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/ It was incredibly enjoyable to go through the APIs and write about all the different crazy things they can do.
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“UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
I was frustrated with the lack of resources, so I'm publishing a book on it: "Building Browser Extensions". Available later this year. https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/
And check out the companion extension: https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/b2x
uBOL-home
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
> It allows for 30,000 dynamic rules
That is not what we mean by dynamic filters. From https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-fi...
> However, to support more frequent updates and user-defined rules, extensions can add rules dynamically too, without their developers having to upload a new version of the extension to the Chrome Web Store.
What Chrome is talking about is the ability to specify rules at runtime. What critics of Manifest V3 are talking about is not the ability to dynamically add rules (although that can be an issue), it is the ability to add dynamic rules -- ie rules that analyze and rewrite requests in the style of the blockingWebRequest permission.
It's a little deceptive to claim that the concerns here are outdated and to point to vague terminology that sounds like it's correcting the problem, but on actual inspection turns out to be entirely separate functionality from what the GP was talking about.
> Giving this ability to extensions can slow down the browser for the user. These ads can still be blocked through other means.
This is the debate; most of the adblocking community disagrees with this assertion. uBO maintains a list of some common features that are already not possible to support in Chrome ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... ) and has written about features that are not able to be supported via Chrome's current V3 API ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... ). Of particular note are filtering for large media elements (I use this a lot on mobile Firefox, it's great for reducing page size), and top-level filtering of domains/fonts.
- UBlockOrigin Lite
- Current status of uBlockOrigin in Safari 17
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Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
For an extension to be entirely declarative, it must package all the scripts to inject anywhere, the scripting.registerContentScript API doesn't allow injecting code as string[1], the content scripts must be part of the package.[2]
There is userScripts API which allows injecting code as string, but it's impractical as in Chromium-based browsers this requires extra steps by the user to enable the API.[3] In Firefox, the documentation for this API has the following note[4]:
> When using Manifest V3 or higher, use scripting.registerContentScripts() to register scripts
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[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
[2] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/tree/main/chromium...
[3] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/userS... ("Availability Pending")
[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
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Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future
AIUI it's because declarativeNetRequests requires the filters to be specified statically, see https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/decla...
Also note that the site you linked is for UBlock, which is a different extension from UBlock Origin. The UBlock Origin Lite (UBlock Origin for MV3) page has an explanation: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
- UBlockOrigin Lite (partially) works on Safari
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Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
You can also use a declarative adblocker like uBlock Origin Lite [1], which only provides the browser with a list of elements to filter, but doesn't have any permissions to read content or perform requests. Or simply use your hosts file to apply OS-wide filtering with no browser add-ons needed: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Be aware that if you use these "passive" blocking methods, there are some sites like YouTube where you will see ads, because in these cases it's necessary to actually manipulate page content to hide them. What you can do is use a traditional adblocker but enable it only for these few sites where the declarative approach is not enough, take a look at [2] for more details.
[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home
[2] https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/04/layered-content-blocking...
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uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
> The author's description even seems to praise Manifest v3 in the same way Google PR did.
No, it simply declares the goal of that add-on: to fully comply with declarative ways of MV3 and its limitations, and no uBO extended features that need workarounds to be implemented.
He's more strict to Lite than full version:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/17
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uBlock Origin 1.50.0
Obviously a project like this has already been offered 7-figure deals already: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-issues/issues/44
And he declined all.
- のーもら公認アドオン『ublock origin』収益化のご提案をまたもや相手にせず
What are some alternatives?
plasmo - 🧩 The Browser Extension Framework
webextensions - Charter and administrivia for the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG)
brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
little-rat - 🐀 Small chrome extension to monitor (and optionally block) other extensions' network calls
google-api-javascript-client - Google APIs Client Library for browser JavaScript, aka gapi.
AdGuardDNS - Public DNS resolver that protects you from ad trackers
Speed-Run-Sidebar - A Display + Controller to integrate with OBS
remove-youtube-suggestions - A browser extension that removes YouTube suggestions, comments, shorts, and more
new-wave - Stack Computer Bytecode Interpreters: The New Wave
uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin
FreePSXBoot - Exploit to allow loading arbitrary code on the PSX using only a memory card (no game needed)
uBlock-Safari - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.