A browser privacy showdown has been brewing for a while.
    • Ephera
      12·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I don’t get why the rest of the comments here are shooting against both. Firefox is 100% doing the right thing here.

    • Seirdy
      43·
      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.