Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by dwaltrip on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:55PM (#20291099)

Is it unethical to avoid looking at billboards?

If not, what if I had a special pair of glasses that obscured such billboards or other physical advertising? It's not possible today, but not that hard to imagine in the near future.

How are these situations different from blocking ads on the web?

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by kevinh on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:19PM (#20291477)

To my knowledge, billboards don't fund roads. Unless they are the exclusive source of revenue for roads, the situations aren't really comparable.

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by butteroverflow on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:38PM (#20291563)

Ads don't fund the communication networks as far as I am aware. Last time I checked, my internet bill wasn't paid by me looking at ads.

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by dwaltrip on Thursday June 27, 2019 @03:07PM (#20297497)

Ah, that is a good point. They aren't comparable on that aspect.

I would argue they are still comparable in terms of "autonomy of attention".

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