Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by ignoramous on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:46PM
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> Facebook has its own massive walled off kingdom that exists nearly entirely in apps where they can heavily control ad blocking.
True, hence the rise of DNS based content blocking like pi-hole. Sure, it is trivial for apps to workaround it by using a custom DoH impl themselves, it hasn't been done yet.
Another possibility is to patch the apps, ref YoutubeVanced
Yet another possibility is to run an app within a user-land emulator on the device and block content and deny requests. See: VirtualApp
True, hence the rise of DNS based content blocking like pi-hole. Sure, it is trivial for apps to workaround it by using a custom DoH impl themselves, it hasn't been done yet.
Another possibility is to patch the apps, ref YoutubeVanced
Yet another possibility is to run an app within a user-land emulator on the device and block content and deny requests. See: VirtualApp