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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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josephcsible ◴[21 Jun 25 01:04 UTC] No.44333618[source]▶
> This locks a few global objects by using Object.defineProperty to set them as non-writable, which prevents later code from overwriting them with a Proxy that alters their behaviour. So uBlock Origin can only proxy JSON.stringify if it can run before this locker script does.

This seems like a bug in browsers, or possibly in the spec. Page content and scripts should never be able to restrict what browser extensions can do.

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1. uzerfcwn ◴[21 Jun 25 09:39 UTC] No.44336093[source]▶
Feel free to write a bug report to Chrome developers or ManifestV3 authors. In the meantime, Firefox users can override any delivered content with the webRequest API.