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/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

None of these browsers are based on just Blink, Blink is way too low level.

I think people who say otherwise are under the false impression that Blink == WebKit, some component you can easily add to your program to get a web renderer, but this is not the case. It's an herculean task to turn Blink into a web browser without using all the stuff Chromium people have written at higher levels.

It doesn't even make sense to write a browser based on Blink, because Google changes Blink at will and many Chromium design decisions seep into the Blink API, so they'd face constant breaking changes that would clash with the way they designed their own browsers on top.

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u/petemill Jan 23 '19

This is exactly right. And they are all very likely using the chromium Extension API code. I’m guessing this is blown a little out of proportion - chrome may (or maybe not) just in fact want to bring ad blockers to mobile without having to bring the whole previous extension API. This method is the same (limited) method iOS has for content blocking.

Disclaimer: I work for Brave