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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by michaelmrose on Monday June 10, 2019 @03:24AM (#20144569)
Doesn't any finite length list that is only able to be updated when the addon is updated mean ad networks can use a random string with more combinations than the size of list to defeat all ad blocking?
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by SquareWheel on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:06AM (#20146815)
Yes, that seems plausible.
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