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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by karatestomp on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:23PM (#22444394)
I think ads will be the reason Web Assembly takes off in a massive way, actually. Much harder to block ads if the site ships its own renderer and manages to hide or obscure its traffic. Then you're in to serious application-cracking territory if you want to block ads & tracking.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by imhoguy on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:43PM (#22444587)
Web Assembly is just a runtime, like obfuscated JS it is sandboxed and still needs to access some standard APIs to at least conform to CORS. I don't see a problem to let plugins/browsers control `window.fetch` or whatever connection method the WASM code is going to use.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:39PM (#22446132)
Not going to work against a CDN delivering all content through a websocket.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by karatestomp on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:52PM (#22446762)
IMO Cloudflare's a huge threat to Google for exactly this reason.
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