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uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

jcfrei wrote: post #3

Once LLMs get fast enough at processing real-time images Apple (or anybody really) can just roll out a browser rendering engine that just masks all ads. It will take a few years but the browser ad-business is in it's terminal phase.

This is the first and only use-case for LLMs that I am genuinely excited about.

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by monooso »

jcfrei wrote: post #3

Once LLMs get fast enough at processing real-time images Apple (or anybody really) can just roll out a browser rendering engine that just masks all ads. It will take a few years but the browser ad-business is in it's terminal phase.

Given that Safari doesn't even have a built-in ad-blocker, I doubt Apple will be leading the charge on this.

Such a move would also presumably be incompatible with Apple's highly lucrative search engine deal with Google.

Re: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

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Post by damidekronik »

The-Old-Hacker wrote: post #6

I use a browser extension called F.B. Purity. It's worked across multiple browsers for years. https://www.fbpurity.com/

I was gonna say that uBlock still works for me on facebook, but yea I forgot I had purity quietly working for me for all those years
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