The Chrome team submits a patch: Prevent users from "viewing the source code of the webpage"

On November 11, Jason Scott, an Internet Archive employee, tweeted that a patch submitted by the Chrome team for the Chromium project could be used to prevent users from using the browser’s "view webpage source code" feature.

In addition, he also mentioned that the owner of the patch is an employee of Microsoft, who was responsible for removing the project supported by FTP.

Judging from the description of the patch, it is indeed as Jason Scott said-through URLBlocklist rules to achieve the need to block view-source:* configuration items.

But soon developers pointed out that this patch actually has a context, that is, users have reported errors before, and they cannot configure as an administrator to prohibit "view webpage source code" on the Chrome of the organization (company/school, etc.) Function.

​Therefore, the prohibition here is mainly for the administrators of organizations such as enterprises, and "viewing the source code of the webpage" does not affect the use of ordinary users​.