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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by ggcdn on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:30AM (#13858647)
Could the website server make the requests to the ad networks, then serve the responses as if it were native content?

Current browser-based blocking tech would be rendered useless, right?

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by taejo on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:43AM (#13858776)
No, adblockers also use things like div ids, and potentially even heuristics like image shape.
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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by tajen on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:38PM (#13859415)
Safari itself is an ad-blocker, with its "reader mode". I could hardly imagine opening a newspaper page without it. Actually, my iPad 2 isn't powerful enough anymore to open a newspaper page, except if I use the reader mode.
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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by dredmorbius on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:55PM (#13863320)
Firefox as well. I use Pocket as a perferred reader generally, though its failure to provide a means of navigating directly to sites, or of showing a navbar, is annoying.

(Pocket ... has multiple annoyances. It's better than the alternatives, so far as I've tried, but that is one hellaciously low-set bar.)

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