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kheina-com / Blue-Blocker

Blocks all Twitter Blue verified users on twitter.com
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OldTwitter Compatibility #173

Closed kheina closed 1 year ago

kheina commented 1 year ago

from an email I received:

Is there any chance this extension could be updated to work with the Old Twitter Layout extension? Given it's the only way to get into twitter right now. Thanks.

kheina commented 1 year ago

it looks like adding support on chrome is fairly straight forward, just needed to add logic to retry the various elements injected into the twitter page (request hijacking, toasts div, stylesheet for toasts).

firefox on the other hand appears to have additional isolation between extensions that chrome doesn't have. it seems like chrome routes requests made by content scripts through the web page's own XMLHttpRequest.prototype, which allows blue blocker to see these requests and parse them. firefox, however, does not.

this is backed up by the xhr list in the developer console literally being empty while running old twitter: image

unless there's another way to read requests from other addon's content scripts, old twitter will need to send content payloads to blue blocker for parsing in order for blue blocker to work

kheina commented 1 year ago

it seems like I was mistaken, blue blocker also doesn't work on chrome with old twitter. the requests I'm seeing are those made by the new twitter code running behind the old twitter extension. it appears any requests made by content scripts that are not owned by your extension are invisible to other extensions

kheina commented 1 year ago

closing this in favor of #185, so that people aren't confused by my investigatory comments