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Note that the lack of adblocker in nativefier has nothing to do with the lack of libraires to do the blocking but rather technical challenges with preload scripts, etc. (Not impossible but someone needs to implement it). See here for relevant issue: https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier/issues/177
MITM for HTTPS means you'll need to set up each machine with an additional cert. And for this project, you need to configure each machine to funnel through the proxy anyways.
https://github.com/Barre/privaxy#local-system-configuration
Personally, I use NextDNS which allows you to block categories, IPs, and use blocklists.
It's set up on the network level, and I have two separate NextDNS "networks" configured. One for the entire network, one for "privileged" users/devices.
A little OT: Interested in generative art in the browser, I recently stumbled on an implementation of Voronoi diagrams by none other than... gorhill!
https://github.com/gorhill/Javascript-Voronoi
Something he made 10 years ago, and is still super efficient. Some people are just good ;-)
With CNAME uncloaking enabled, maintaining default deny, and allow only what is needed approach becomes quite a bit more work, as it ends up blocking a bunch of necessary content. But without you are allowing a fair bit of tracking you shouldn't.
After a few months of trying to use uBO like uMatrix, I found that using the curated deny-lists was a more tractable approach than maintaining my own allow-list, and thus don't miss the uMatrix interface as much as I expected.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#u...