Arda's Blog

I’m hereby releasing a beta version of the new online AdSweep. Seeing as it’s beta I haven’t had that much time to debug, so please send me bug reports through the usual channels. As for the YouTube ‘bug’, I’m going to include the code by default, please disable AdSweep on YouTube if you mind having to reload sometimes. It now has a button in the top-right, which allows you to disable it and download all the rules to cache.

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It’s been quite some time since I’ve had time to review the whole Chrome API again. As it turns out, it’s been greatly updated, to the point where we can abandon the whole content-script idea. The main features I’m interested in are insertCSS and executeScript. These let extensions inject CSS and Javascript into a page from the background page. So, now, there’s a background script that waits for pages to start loading, which is when it’ll download rules to hide ads. It also caches rules in the extension’s database with an option to download all rules, which should make the experience a lot smoother. I’m putting together a beta ASAP.

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Last time, when I first took over AdSweep’s maintenance, I tried an experiment to have the database of rules on my server and to have the extension simply insert the stylesheet generated by my server into the page. This worked fine in my testing, but apparently it didn’t work too well for most people. So I scrapped it and began thinking about a new way of doing it.

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