• Seirdy
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    2 years ago

    The reality is more nuanced than this. Wrote up my thoughts on my blog: A layered approach to content blocking.

    Strictly speaking about content filtering: declarativeNetRequest is honestly a good thing for like 80% of websites. But there’s that 20% that’ll need privileged extensions. Content blocking should use a layered approach that lets users selectively enable a more privileged layer. Chromium will instead be axing the APIs required for that privileged layer; Firefox’s permission system is too coarse to support a layered approach.