Remember when web browsers were independent of advertisers, and when web pages implemented po-up adds, web browsers responded with pop-up blockers?
I'll be convinced web browsers have regained their independence when they start including blockers for modal interfaces, which have replaced the pop-up as the preferred method of hijacking the user's attention.
This reminds me of how Blink (used by Chromium browsers) started - as Konqueror, the web browser of the KDE desktop used by a lot of Linux distributions.
I can do without all of my other security, anti-malware and anti-spyware add-ins. Those are all deeply secondary.
But if uBlock Origin doesn’t have first-class support when this browser becomes available… yeah.
They don’t even need to have a plugin interface ready, so long as the plugin guts are there and uBlock has been whitelisted for manual (drop directly into the profile filesystem) installation.
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[ 18.7 ms ] story [ 26.2 ms ] threadI'll be convinced web browsers have regained their independence when they start including blockers for modal interfaces, which have replaced the pop-up as the preferred method of hijacking the user's attention.
(Yes there is some Apple webkit in between)
But if uBlock Origin doesn’t have first-class support when this browser becomes available… yeah.
They don’t even need to have a plugin interface ready, so long as the plugin guts are there and uBlock has been whitelisted for manual (drop directly into the profile filesystem) installation.
https://github.com/pkgdemon/ladybird/issues/1
https://old.reddit.com/r/gnustep/comments/1q0pdd6/ladybird_p...