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That's wrong. V3 doesn't allow network calls to be modified, for privacy reasons. It still allows them to be blocked, which is how the adblocking works in the
by crazygringo 2y ago
That's wrong.
V3 doesn't allow network calls to be modified, for privacy reasons. It still allows them to be blocked, which is how the adblocking works in the first place.
Contrary to what you say, v3 does block the tracking in the ad request as well as the bandwidth.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/declarativeNetRequest https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/d...
- makeitdouble 2y agoI'm not well versed into adblocking, but shouldn't the extension also get access to the content of the request as well, to be able to either improve it's blocking accuracy (e.g. detect if the whitelisted content matches blocked content patterns) or decide to hide a resource after it was fetched ?
- culi 2y agoIt only allows them to be blocked with static rulesets. And these rulesets have a maximum size of 50. There's no way this is large enough to cover all your websites. It's also trivial for an anti-adblock script to try a few different urls until it finds one that isn't in your static ruleset https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/declarativeNetRequest#comparison_with_the_webrequest_api https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
- lern_too_spel 2y ago330k. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)#is-the-limit-on-maximum-number-of-dnr-rules-an-issue https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
- crazygringo 2y agoThe maximum number of rule sets is 50, not rules, as your own link clearly and unambiguously states. The actual minimum (not maximum) number of supported rules is 30,000: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/declarativeNetRequest/GUARANTEED_MINIMUM_STATIC_RULES https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... In reality, Chrome supports over 10x that. And UBOL doesn't even use/need the minimum, sticking to around 17,000. So that's plenty to cover all your websites. Which is why UBOL works perfectly fine in practice.
- anticensor 2y agoIn my uBO (not uBOL) setup, I have about 1.7M rules active.
- bdlowery 2y agoPerson who resembles 0.000001% of the internet userbase complains on hacker news. More news at 7.