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Bringing Ad Block into the core also sounds like a violation of the browser abstraction to me. A browser is supposed to show me what I give it. Specifying and i
by fpgeek 13y ago
Bringing Ad Block into the core also sounds like a violation of the browser abstraction to me. A browser is supposed to show me what I give it. Specifying and implementing policies about what content is "good" or "bad" and should be treated specially seems logically separate to me.
- coldtea 13y agoYou realise that such features can come with a on/off setting right? Plus there's no such a "browser abstraction". A browser is just supposed to be useful for surfing the web, and if blocking ads is part of that, then so be it. Nobody talks about a "mailer abstraction" ("a mailer is supposed to show me what is coming into my account"), when mailers have built-in spam email filters. Not to mention that similar things already exist in browsers. Browsers eg. stop you going into "bad" content ("fishing", "malware" etc sites). They stop your visit, show you a warning page, and ask if you're sure you want to continue. Technically those are just other pages, they are content too (and sometimes they even have been labelled wrongly).