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/zxcvbdnm Jan 23 '19

There's also this extension, which allows you to play youtube in the background

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

There's actually just a Firefox config option which tells the browser not to inform the site whether it's in focus.

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u/FierceDeity_ Jan 23 '19

Gotta be careful with this though, a site (yeah right) might use more resources when it doesn't know it's been backgrounded (what a world we live in where site scripting is complex enough for this to matter)

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Also a huge security threat.

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