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I'm another uBlock Origin user because I don't like the compromise that ABP has become. What I'm thinking about doing is writing a bit of software external to
by dotrnd 11y ago
I'm another uBlock Origin user because I don't like the compromise that ABP has become.
What I'm thinking about doing is writing a bit of software external to the browser that does something akin to what alot of us *nix users did before HTML5, which was to symlink Flash, in particular .macromedia and .adobe to /dev/null. This allowed the viewing of Flash content without the site being allowed to "write" LSOs to your HDD. Worked beautifully. I'm thinking the same sort of thing can be done with ads, tracking, etc., using a subscription model similar to what most ad blockers use. To whit, you surf a given site, yet see no ads and tracking, etc, is disallowed but the site doesn't notice. What say you, HN?
- unexistance 11y agohah, I'm sold at "symlink Flash, in particular .macromedia and .adobe to /dev/null" :D so, does it mean something like a /dev/null for browsers?
- ikeboy 11y agoYou'd need to download scripts and run them in the background if they send info back to tell if it's blocked. That would defeat part of the purpose of the blocking. Tracking is easily blocked by deleting cookies after you leave the site/browser.