sindresorhus/Plash

Hide cookie notices & ad-blocking

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#37 opened on Jan 17, 2020

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Description

Cookie notices and ads are annoying. WKWebView supports a content filter, so I think we can find some sources to feed it.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkusercontentcontroller/2902756-add

For cookie notices, probably this: https://fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt

For ads, there are a bunch here: https://filterlists.com

Could do something like this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/capture-website/pull/98 (see https://github.com/ghostery/adblocker/pull/9)

This is a huge amount of work and will not happen soon

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Research direction
Implement content blocking using WKContentRuleList by converting filter lists (e.g., Fanboy's Cookie Monster and adblock lists) into JSON rule lists, then adding them to the WKWebView's user content controller. Test with sample websites to verify blocking works.
Tech stack
swift
Domain
desktop
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Feature
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4
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Over 1 week
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Active
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Mostly clear
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macOS developmentSwiftWebKit
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20