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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by IvanK_net on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:52AM (#21584379)
The first thing is, how do you distinguish between the ad and a non-ad? If my friend mentions a famous brand in a chat with me, should there be some entity to remove the name of that brand from the chat, so that I don't see it?

There are many videos on Youtube recommending stuff. You never know if the author has been paid. Even if you try to detect popular ad networks and services, the ad techniques will also evolve.

If ads were the only source of my income, and my content was unique, I would show the user a "quiz" every 5 minutes, asking him to answer, what is shown in the ads at the moment :D and deny the access, if the answer is wrong.

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by geofft on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:58AM (#21584427)
The common motivation for ad-blocking is to prevent third-party tracking (the discussion here is about first parties proxying that tracking), JS attack surface, cryptominers, auto-playing videos, etc. - not to prevent advertising per se. Back when Google sold text-only ads, people were quite happy with them for doing it.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by hombre_fatal on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:18PM (#21585942)
> Back when Google sold text-only ads, people were quite happy with them for doing it.

Those are some rose-tinted glasses. People on forums like HN were always annoyed that they looked like navbar links and you were only clicking them out of confusion with actual links.

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