An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

Re:An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking) by kodablah on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @08:51PM (#16012277)

I asked before, but never really got a good answer. Is this client side only? If not, how are they querying a server? And where can I download the full list of unacceptable ads/sites? And if I can't, why not? And finally, why does this have to be native instead of an extension?

Edit: I guess another question, why aren't the answers to obvious questions like these readily available? Or am I just ignorant?

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Re:An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking) by dedalus on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:00PM (#16012312)

I believe this is a hybrid. Chrome sends telemetry data to their server and they already know what kind of sites and ads are blocked.

I think they need correlation of ads shown followed by an adblocker extension install so that they want to block such ads to prevent the growth in adblockers

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