Not asking for tech support here, just wondering if in theory it would be possible to create a plug-in or even a complete browser that blocks ads in a way that’s impossible to detect. One model that comes to mind is a quarantined / containerized non-blocking virtual browser which queries the web server directly, then the UX filters the content from that container and presents it to the user ad-free. As far as the web server can tell, the containerized browser is just vanilla Chromium.

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    2 months ago

    It doesn’t matter how good your browser is when you can only access content through an app.

    That’s the way things are headed, I’m afraid. In a few years you won’t be able to load Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, or Twitter(formally X) from a browser.

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      2 months ago

      Bleak but probably true. Cabin in the woods with a good book is my future.

      What do you mean all the woods are “gone”?

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      2 months ago

      An ad-blocking DNS server on your local network should work for apps too, right? (As long as the ads are hosted on known ad servers.)