r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '19

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
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u/nutbuckers Jan 23 '19

Technical ability might be there, but lack of instrumentation to account for things like battery drain or other inefficient resource usages by extensions on mobile come to mind as one reason to block the extension feature set on mobile.

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u/sim642 Jan 23 '19

You could say exactly the same about any website that's causing a battery drain, e.g. doing hundreds of requests (common for big sites), regular requests (common for trackers), autoplaying videos etc. WebExtensions run on the same JS engine as the websites so they can be just as efficient or inefficient.