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Plenty of sites already give Google something different from what they show everyone else, right?
No, that's actually a great way to make Google penalize your site. It's explicitly against their Webmaster Guidelines: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355
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Many websites indeed pester us to download their mobile app but I have yet to find one that forces me to? Do they actually exist?
Reddit forces you to download the app now. You can scroll like 2-4 pages worth of content and then it'll pop up asking you to open in app. On every page you navigate to from within the website you'll first get a pop up asking to choose between browser and reddit app.
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People will just stop visiting such webpages where it's impossible to separate the chaff from the wheat, simple as that.
people already don't do this for example: people who don't have adblockers (like everyone in my family except me)
Maybe not most, for now. But there certainly exist people who do this. I do, for one.
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Web Assembly will be the end of the HTML/HTTP based web: QUIC, direct JS based render in browser, no more view source. HTTP/HTML will become the next gopher, and this makes me incredibly sad
Don't forget DNS-over-HTTPS w/ certificate pinning to prevent DNS-based request filtering, too.
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Forget the CPU usage, I only use the old UI because it's better/ I find it more usable. Or maybe I'm just getting old :D
I wont disagree there, it's not useable. I wonder what possessed them into believing any of this was a good idea.
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How would the blocker know which parts of the memory to block?
The same way trainers, aimbots, and other hacks know which addresses are critical for exploiting game mechanics, by doing analysis of decompiled code and also searching running memory for known patterns and then patching them hot.
That's a bit different than a video game that was compiled only once.
Great article! It's funny to finally see ad blockers go "mainstream". My dystopian-future fear is that that Web Assembly will be the end of ad blocking (and the end of a web of connected web sites). Big sites will eventually convert to essentially "a web browser inside a web browser" so they have total control over the content and how it's displayed. Then ad blocking (and other customization) will be limited to "the…
Those Web Assembly sites will still have memory accessible by the end user, ads will still be blocked. They would need to server side render pages like a streaming game client would.
Great article! It's funny to finally see ad blockers go "mainstream". My dystopian-future fear is that that Web Assembly will be the end of ad blocking (and the end of a web of connected web sites). Big sites will eventually convert to essentially "a web browser inside a web browser" so they have total control over the content and how it's displayed. Then ad blocking (and other customization) will be limited to "the…
Easier said than done, of course.
For the record, I've no problem with "fair" advertising, the kind that used to appear in newspapers and magazines in the 1970s, for example. (Well, aside from its use as a virus vector.) But modern day web ads are simply abusive in too many cases.
Could you imagine visiting a web site only to have it tell you to disable your virus blocker to view the web page? Yet, web sites make the same requests of your "ad blocker" even though the end result is the same. They want you to disable your security protections and risk infection to view a web page.[1]
Sadly, I believe we've already lost this battle and are worse off for it.
1. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3021113/forbes-malware-...
It changed the landscape on Android in my opinion: it was the first browser that was as good as Chrome (fast, same look & feel -- being a fork of Chromium -- plus regularly updated and having strong, credible technical team behind it) but also having ad blocking built-in and other additional privacy measures. Soon Opera added ad blocking as well, and other browsers (except Chrome) followed.