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No Add-on Can Block Ads in This Browser
Code: Megapixel99/kestrel
Kestrel is a macOS browser I have been building on WKWebView to test whether a browser can hold a memory budget the way a game engine holds a frame budget. It used to ship six built-in imitations of common extensions, including an ad blocker. When macOS 15.4 shipped WKWebExtension I replaced all six with the real thing: Kestrel unpacks an .xpi and hands it to WebKit, and all 25 add-ons from my Firefox profiles load.
Then I measured whether the real ad bl...
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