Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers

• uBlock

  2,992 43,007 9.9 JavaScript

  uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

>extensions can delay requests making the browser slow

There's an older UBO wiki post showing, with their default set of rules, the onBeforeRequest() processing adds about 130ms of latency. It does also show that a less well written ad blocker adds around 420ms.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-vs.-ABP:-effic...

Of course, then you can subtract whatever performance issues loading all those ads would have caused. That math often ends up in favor of the ad blocker, even if it's not a particularly well written one.

• Fenix

  750 6,681 7.7 Kotlin

  Discontinued ⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android

  

> "Remote code" being all code Remote to Google, as in code not residing on Google servers. User code sitting on Users disk in form of an extension installed Locally by the User into his "User Agent" is "Remote code" to Google.

Replace Google with Mozilla, and you still have an accurate statement:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• AdGuardMV3

  4 134 8.1 TypeScript

  AdGuard browser extension prototype based on the new Manifest V3

  

• uAssets

  376 3,499 10.0 Adblock Filter List

  Resources for uBlock Origin, uMatrix: static filter lists, ready-to-use rulesets, etc.

  

> Is this speculation or has there actually been an analysis of how many ads are unblockable?

You could go through all the issues that are solved on a daily basis by filter list maintainers and see how your content blocker deals with those specific issues being solved for uBO.

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[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...

• webextensions

  36 559 8.1 Bikeshed

  Charter and administrivia for the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG)

  

It looks like it's being worked on, see <https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/279>.

• bromite

  496 5,691 0.0

  Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

  

• uBlock-minus-mv3-cs-poc

  1 0 9.8 JavaScript

  Discontinued uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

You don't have to believe me, you can try my fork pre-built here

https://github.com/raed667/uBlock-minus-mv3-cs-poc/releases/...

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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