[danShumway]

Looks very promising! Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like adblock-rust also handles CNAME resolution? That's pretty good. And I also like that it directly consumes adblock rules, it doesn't require them to be converted into a new format.

That being said:

> it has rules that allow requests to only go through in certain contexts or if they're originating from certain domains

I haven't personally seen a proposal for server-based blocking outside of the browser that could begin to tackle this problem, and contextual blocking is a huge part of what makes browser adblockers work so well. As far as I can tell, adblock-rust isn't an exception to that.

It's a very difficult problem. In order for you to have a rule like "block 3rd-party requests on a-bank-website.com", you need more information than just the request itself. Maybe this is something where sites could piggyback off of CORS requests? But browsers don't always send CORS requests.

I'm not sure what the solution would be, but regardless I don't think that blockit would be a replacement in its current state. Still looks like a promising project as a network-based blocker though.