Anti-Adblock Killer Userscript breaks websites if used via AdGuard, works fine with Tampermonkey

Boo Berry

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I've had the thought for awhile now that perhaps there should be a separate Adguard Assistant extension for Chrome and Firefox, which is focused on integration with Adguard for Windows and Adguard for Mac (e.g. extension that's unable to block ads by itself) - it'd primarily serve as the Assistant. That way there won't be anymore issues with the extension filtering sites while Adguard for Windows/Mac isn't (due to exceptions, etc.).

This would be great for a person like me who doesn't exactly like to use the Assistant userscript (but does anyways), and doesn't like using the browser extensions as a replacement due to them automatically falling back (when there's an exception in the main program) to filtering websites (yes, I have all filters disabled/removed in the browser extensions in this case).

This would also solve the issue where the Assistant won't appear on websites with invalid HTML. But I also know an Assistant extension isn't possible for Safari or Edge right now, which is fine. Chrome and Firefox are the two most used browsers.
 
Yeah, that's what I would want. I don't really care if it's distributed separately or as the same extension, as long as I can ste it permanently to integration mode and have the integration mode work at least as well as the Adguard Assistant, ideally better.
 

Boo Berry

Moderator + Beta Tester
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Well, the thing is one could argue that using the full browser extension *can* increase the browser's memory usage, even when filtering is completely disabled (though these days it's somewhat a non-issue unless you're on older hardware). With a dedicated Assistant extension, the ad blocking engine can be gutted and the extension itself could potentially be optimized where very little resources is required to use. :D

An Assistant extension's icon can have different colors - green for normal, grey when filtering is disabled on a website, red when the Adguard Service isn't running/can't be found, etc. It could also help with quickly adding filtering rules (without opening Adguard for Windows/Mac), removing filtering rules, work as a filtering log (if possible), etc.
 
Eh, we're talking Chrome here, like that would make an iota of a difference ...

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But these are desktop systems, not mobile. It's not like RAM is a precious resource these days, unused RAM is wasted RAM.
 
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