hoverzoom VS AdGuardSDNSFilter

I will leave this as a gallery of emails with offers to buy extension hoverzoom: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Sidenote: The "collaboration" offers come from time to time even to non-extensions projects, if they are reasonably widely used. E.g. simple tools (rather widely used suite of android apps recently sold).

> Manifest V3 will stop this by limiting what Google describes "remotely hosted code." All updates, even to benign things like a filtering list, will need to happen through full extension updates through the Chrome Web Store. They will all be subject to Chrome Web Store reviews process, and that comes with a significant time delay.

So the author can't think of any other reason for this change other than to "slow down ad blocker updates"

Well how about stuff like this: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Where an extension dev details offers to "monetize" his app and basically perform a bait and switch and make it malicious.

These type of offers are actually quite common. See this[0] and the discussion[1]. I try to stick with only the most popular of extensions in the hope that any malicious changes would be widespread news, but it is still a gamble.

[0] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066680

As a maintainer of a semi-popular chrome extension[1], I receive so many buy-out offers that I started publicly collecting them[2] for everyone to see.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccc...

[2] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Also, here's a open source alternative.

I don't want to download a sieve from a russian forum. Hover Zoom+ is working fine.

Hover Zoom+: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/ (this is the open source one, not the old one with malware)

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardSDNSFilter

If you don't trust their DNS servers for whatever reason, you can simply add these entries to your hosts file to replicate their functionality locally.

Opened pull request: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardSDNSFilter/pull/1418

You don't really need AdGuard DNS in this setting, the filter it use is already included in the DNS blocking filter if you enable it, which you should, since this way DNS requests are filtered immediately instead of having to go all the way to the AdGuard DNS server every single time. Feel free to combine it with other DNS servers if you want, eg, maybe you find one that is faster/blocks malware better, etc. The requests then will only resolve if the adblocking filter doesn't block it and the DNS server also approve it.

Posted and issue to fix it: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardSDNSFilter/issues/1260

linkt-transport.top · Issue #1185 · AdguardTeam/AdGuardSDNSFilter (github.com)

Technically, not all rules in EasyList are included in AdGuard DNS, because some of the rules are URL patterns that can't be supported by DNS-based filtering.

Adguard DNS Filter? You mean this one? https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardSDNSFilter There's a link there in project description.

If you're asking what DNS filters I use on AGH, then it's a mixture of adblocking, security, and specific purpose. I'm using the standard AdGuard filter plus: