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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
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Microsoft Edge is ending support for the Manifest V2 extensions platform, which will cut off the uBlock Origin adblocker and others like it, just like Google Chrome did earlier this year. According to Microsoft, there are only 58 extensions on the Edge Add-On Store "with any meaningful usage" that still use MV2, and only three […]

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How long until someone creates a render proxy that loads requested pages, reprocesses the result without the ads, and send that rendered output to your actual browser

Out of fucking spite.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    You would have to break tls to do that. It's your system, you could probably do whatever you want, but the browser is checking for certificates and origin requests. It would get complex real quick to do the same checks the browser is doing...

    At that point, you are basically building another browser.

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