I didn't. If anyone passing through has a link to it, I'd like to check.
Oh, huh, I've seen that done at my high school, just didn't remember the name. Guy was balancing off the edge of a couch in one of those "time is frozen" videos.
I remember all of those except planking, unless you mean the exercise.
Why do you need to intercept requests to block ads? Why can't you just hide them on the page?
They will be able to block most ads. For more advanced sites like YouTube, they should be able to use the permissions API to request permissions for those specific sites, allowing them to use the scripting API to inject scripts to those pages, thus gaining better adblocking capabilities.
Also, the comment you linked to was a description of how uBlock Origin Lite works, not the issues faced in manifest v3. I didn't read through the whole thread because it was really long, but I did still manage to find those points in there.
Thanks! So yeah, I guess there will likely be an issue with YouTube ads, if what I've heard about it updating multiple times daily is true, but they don't seem to be expressing concern about it.
Right now I have two Chrome profiles with two different adblockers trying to get around YouTube ads in two different ways, and both of them are able to do so. One is uBlock, doing what uBlock does with an army of developers updating filter lists, and the other seems to be playing the ad in the background while skipping me ahead to the video. So I do think that even if uBlock's current approach fails, they will be able to find a way.
If things go awry and both my adblockers fail, even if it's just on YouTube, I intend to switch to Firefox, but it's not worth the bother yet.
Have the uBlock developers been talking about this? I'd like to read up on that if so.
Why is your password *******?
If that's the goal, I don't really mind. Adblocking always used to be a thing that most people don't bother with, so companies didn't mind all that much when a few of us did. If we're just going back to that point, and we adblock enthusiasts don't have to jump through ridiculous hoops to keep doing what we're doing, I see that as a win-win.
I meant user scripts might be able to populate filter lists for the main extension to do.
Based on the conversation so far, I'm pretty sure extensions can block ads, but the concern was that filter lists would have to be packaged with the extension instead of dynamically updated. User scripts might be a way around that, as they'd allow loading arbitrary code, but I don't know what the limits on that would be.
I see. Poking around a bit more, it looks like the User Scripts API might still be usable to pull in filter lists, as long as users turn on developer mode. What do you think?
1999 too, if it's late enough. Like me.