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

[Boo Berry]

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.

 

[Purple Tentacle]

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]

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.

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.

 

[Purple Tentacle]

Eh, we're talking Chrome here, like that would make an iota of a difference ...


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