Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race

Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by LeoPanthera on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:50PM (#14116738)

> they're just using human maintained lookup lists?

That's correct. The lists are maintained here: https://forums.lanik.us

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by mi100hael on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:28PM (#14117048)

I'm pretty sure at least some of the popular adblockers out there block based on basic keywords as well. We had some users complain that an adblocker was blocking valid parts of our web app because some of the page elements had IDs that started with '#ad-' since 'A.D.' was an internal abbreviation for one of our features.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by nickbail3y on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:52PM (#14116760)

Very interesting, thank you.

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