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ryuuchin on Nov 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets

uBlock Origin provides a websocket companion[1][2] plugin for blocking websocket requests in Chrome.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-WebSocket

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-webs...

the8472 on Nov 2, 2016 [–]

That doesn't use the request filtering APIs, it adds a blocking shim around the objects in each context. It's a workaround.

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