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It's worth noting that the maintenance of the "lite" version is at some nonzero risk of burnout for its developers, ironically in part due to Mozilla being unnecessarily hostile: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issueco... discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707418 - and while there's no plan yet to discontinue the Chrome MV3 compatible version, there are a million ways that this could go wrong.
My only long-term hope for this space is that a nonzero segment of congressional representatives have had ad blockers installed by their aides, realize that their experience online takes a nosedive when MV2 is discontinued, and calls for hearings! Blocking isn't just about not seeing ads, it's about a user's freedom to set up their "user agent" to preserve their privacy online from sites that don't respect their wishes. That's a right that Google is using its market power to erode, and it's not something we should take sitting down.
More on MV3 from a few years ago: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...
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CodeRabbit
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[2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15187
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Servo
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
I realize I'm about to post something that sounds like the most generic HN slop comments... but considering it's why Mozilla initially made the language in the first place:
I was ecstatic about Ladybird from a "fun NIH project" but once it became "serious" it was quite the let down that the hot new independent kickstart was... built in C++. I'm not going to say the "R" word, mostly because I'm less interested "which" and more interested in the "what", but the one place I'd really like to see memory safety is the new small team ground up web browser (aka "remote code execution engine").
On that front https://servo.org/ is "alive" again under the Linux Foundation. It has a focus on being an easily embeddable engine and it seems to be picking up a bit of steam. Whether or not it really takes off remains to be seen. I'll be watching closely though!
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uBlock does have some things that are pretty unique, and useful outside of ads for some websites. Element Zapper is a good example. https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Element-zapper
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privaxy
Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic. Also check out my new project, https://www.merklemap.com/
I thought this was a cool idea, so I looked around for existing implementations and found https://github.com/barre/privaxy
Been a while since the last commit, so I'm not sure if it's maintained, but I might try adding it (or something similar) to my pihole.
