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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by uncensored on Friday April 14, 2017 @06:43PM (#14117994)
How can anyone prevent me from coding an ML-based ad blocker and releasing it as open source and as something that would install between the broswer and the network?
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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by Myrmornis on Saturday April 15, 2017 @01:00AM (#14119471)
They can't but very few people would use it if it is (a) illegal and (b) some weird geek thing, so it would not have much cultural or economic impact.
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