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I saw an addon for Firefox that does that a couple days ago. I think you can do the same thing with filters in uBlock Origin though, but if you don't use an adb

• tyingq 9y ago
  It just blocks urls by pattern. That's easily subverted.
  • fwn 9y ago
    Explain that to the ad industry. Of course a list needs maintainance. An extension that tries to identify and stop all forms of js mining is probably hard to maintain and equally subvertable. As long as the effort to block an entity is much lower than the effort to subvert the blocking the concept will probably work. Especially since curating blocklists is somewhat more scalable than subverting the list.
    • tyingq 9y ago
      Sure. It's just less easy to detect and maintain a list since there is no visual tipoff.