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oomkiller | 6 years ago

Heaven forbid users choose to trade performance for a more usable browsing experience. Ads/tracking vs blocking is a war, and preventing blockers from running arbitrary code will cripple blockers, allowing technology to be developed by hugely funded ad companies that effectively bypass blockers due to these limitations. Providing a blocklist is completely insufficient for totally blocking ads and tracking, as anyone that has used the content blockers on iOS has observed.

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saagarjha|6 years ago

> Providing a blocklist is completely insufficient for totally blocking ads and tracking, as anyone that has used the content blockers on iOS has observed.

I have used a content blocker for more than four years and I would have to disagree.

hu3|6 years ago

Well of course, content blocker audience is still scarce vs ad blockers, hardly worth investing.

That will change if content blocking is the norm.