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Adblock on Chrome is still seriously imperfect, for two reasons 1. It takes a while to hide things (it also has a "hide too much, and un-hide later" mode, but
by JulianMorrison 16y ago
Adblock on Chrome is still seriously imperfect, for two reasons
1. It takes a while to hide things (it also has a "hide too much, and un-hide later" mode, but that's barely an improvement).
2. The big one: it still downloads things. Let me be clear here: I don't want to have to wait for doubleclick to get off its ass and serve me an ad. I want the page all the way loaded when the bits I'm going to see are there. Which does not include adverts. I assume this is pending on Chrome adding a "pretty please may I?" hook to URL fetching - does anyone know when this will be here?
- KERMIT 16y agoBrowsers should just display content. Filtering proxies should filter out ads and other unwanted content before it ever gets to the browser.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoJavascript can always be used to smuggle unwanted content into the DOM. And there are far too many badly-written sites out there for most users to be willing to block Javascript entirely.
- fierarul 16y agoFiltering proxies don't know Javascript or Flash. I also don't want to worry about the parsing and semantic differences between the proxy and the browser: a lot of differences might arrise. Putting ad-blocking inside the browser seems the most logical part, especially since you get the DOM already made so you know you look at the same data.
- JulianMorrison 16y agoThe only browser as minimalist as you seem to want is this one http://www.uzbl.org/ http://www.uzbl.org/ In all other browsers, they are basically a web OS. Stripping adverts out of web pages is well within a browser's remit. In particular, deciding what not to download is within their remit.
- est 16y agodoes anyone know how to intercept a download IPC call in Chromium?