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This is still possible using JavaScript, and yet it is not widely seen.

You can think of WebAssembly as another mechanism for executing code in the browser in the context of a web page. JavaScript is still required to (1) load the wasm binary, (2) evaluate it and (3) connect it to DOM APIs or really anything outside of the isolated wasm execution context.

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How you block some forms of tracking/ads is you inject your own STUB javascript functionality before the offending script loads.

https://github.com/uBlock-user/uBO-Scriptlets

This wont work with webassembly.

None of these scriptlets would break if a site uses WASM, they're utilities for things like adding/removing/mutating elements from the DOM, modifying localStorage, stopping alert()

executesitefunction.js could arguably be effected, but that relies on a site installing a particular function on window, which isn't required when using JS, and could be still done where the function is backed by WASM

Hmm this repo doesnt have the currently used scriptlets.js file, weird. I think this is the official one https://git.furworks.de/opensourcemirror/ublock-origin/src/b...

A lot of stubs, a lot of functionality to kill a script when tripping certain trigger action, or force some properties.

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