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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1036 points deryilz | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.559s | source
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al_borland ◴[12 Jul 25 20:51 UTC] No.44545060[source]▶
Even if bigs exists to work around what Google is doing, that isn’t the right way forward. If people don’t agree with Google move, the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome (and all Chromium browsers). Hit them where it hurts and take away their monopoly over the future direction of the web.
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pjmlp ◴[12 Jul 25 21:34 UTC] No.44545382[source]▶
A monopoly achieved thanks to everyone that forgot about IE lesson, and instead of learning Web standards, rather ships Chrome alongside their application.
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bayindirh ◴[12 Jul 25 23:19 UTC] No.44546061[source]▶
Chrome was made to fracture, and everything started with the aptly named “Atom” editor (they “invented” Electron).

Everybody choose convenience over efficiency and standards, because apparently nobody understood what “being lazy” actually is.

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pjmlp ◴[13 Jul 25 03:27 UTC] No.44547247[source]▶
Microsoft invented Electron, when Windows Active Desktop came to be.

Mozzilla also invented Electron, when XUL applications were a thing.

Both failed, as shipping regular processes with the default browser kept being used.

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1. necovek ◴[13 Jul 25 19:01 UTC] No.44552622[source]▶
KDE invented Electron, when they built KHTML as independently embeddable HTML + CSS + JS engine.

Mozilla did it with Gecko even earlier, really — but they gave up on it to focus on browser itself. (There were a number of Gecko-based browsers like GNOME default browser Epiphany using it)

Apple built WebKit on top of KHTML just as Gecko stopped being updated: I guess they invented it too.

Tools like Windmill (web rendering automation for testing) took programmable concept further.

And Sun did very similar things with Java applets and Java applet runtime for desktop.

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2. account42 ◴[14 Jul 25 09:13 UTC] No.44557913[source]▶
I don't think KDE ever used KHTML as an app development platform rather than as a plugin for rich text.