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Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by heavyset_go on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:34PM (#22243176)
> Currently the vast majority of the internet is completely (or mostly) ad funded: Twitter, Facebook, newspapers, Reddit, YouTube, etc etc.

All of these sites already have native advertising in the form of paid content. Ad-blockers don't block them. Ad-blockers don't block first party advertising, either.

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Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by smt88 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:02PM (#22243326)
> Ad-blockers don't block first party advertising, either.

This isn't necessarily true. Some ad-blockers can be trained with CSS selectors that remove any visual element on the page.

Of course, like all ad-blocking, it's an arms race. Facebook already randomizes and obfuscates the names and IDs (and I think even the structure!) of their pages to prevent ad-blocking.

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