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What can uBlock Origin do that one couldn't do with a sufficiently sophisticated SSL-terminating forward proxy?
by singleshot_ 2y ago
What can uBlock Origin do that one couldn't do with a sufficiently sophisticated SSL-terminating forward proxy?
- crtasm 2y agoRemove elements added dynamically without entirely blocking the script that produces them.
- singleshot_ 2y agoYeah, this seems like the blocker here. Thanks for thinking this through more effectively than I did.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoUsing a proxy to do DNS blocking has significant failures modes. They wont work on youtube because youtube uses the same endpoint to serve the videos and ads for starters.
- singleshot_ 2y agoNo, not DNS blocking; content parsing and editing before it arrives in the browser. I agree DNS blocking is mostly trash. It's not just youtube/google, but anything that uses Akamai will be pretty hosed too.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoThen the problem is you have to wait for the ping to your proxy/emulator every time you want to run some JS because it needs to run whatever blocking script youve got on the output.
- grayhatter 2y agoprovide a UI within the browser chrome
- singleshot_ 2y agoTrue. Good point.