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0 pointshu32mo ago0 comments

Yes. Since for blocking you can afford to have a less mature CSS engine. A tradeoff for performance.

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The `selectors` crate is pretty mature to be fair. It's what's used in Firefox for all CSS selector matching. The main advantage of using it is that it's modular so you can just pull that part out without the entire CSS engine.

db48x2mo ago

Also the filters for adblocking have extended the CSS selector syntax to add extra features, and you might not want those to leak into your parser for stylesheets.

Retr0id2mo ago

I wonder if anti-adblock devs will ever take advantage of the difference between the two

theultdev2mo ago

Used to work in this realm. It doesn't matter.

Easylist will contact you, strongarm you into disabling your countermeasures and threaten to block all JS on your page if you don't comply.

So no ad servers can load, no prebid, nothing will function/load if the user has an adblocker that uses easylist (all of them) installed.

jzebedee2mo ago

That's amazing. I just assumed the ad lists were volunteer maintained like a wiki. I'll be sure to use Easylist now that I know they're also advocating for users while punishing bad advertisers.

satvikpendem2mo ago

That is hilarious to be fair, like a modern day Robin Hood.

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acdw2mo ago

HAHAHAH Hell yeah that's praxis baby die mad about it

goku122mo ago

That's a lot of work to bypass the blocks on a browser that's far from the market leader. Now, even if the browser does become popular enough in the future to be targeted, the developers would probably gain enough resources and support to replace one of the engines with the other.

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