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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by birdyrooster on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:59PM (#22444752)
Those Web Assembly sites will still have memory accessible by the end user, ads will still be blocked.

They would need to server side render pages like a streaming game client would.

Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by cwzwarich on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:02PM (#22445830)
What about a dystopian future where sites only work via SGX-like secure compute environments that remotely attest the execution environment to the server?
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by JohnFen on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:58PM (#22447207)
That's effectively a future without the web at all.
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by three_seagrass on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:54PM (#22445265)
How would the blocker know which parts of the memory to block?
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by birdyrooster on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:25PM (#22445533)
The same way trainers, aimbots, and other hacks know which addresses are critical for exploiting game mechanics, by doing analysis of decompiled code and also searching running memory for known patterns and then patching them hot.
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by three_seagrass on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:00PM (#22445814)
Don't websites compile on every page load, giving them the opportunity to obfuscate?

That's a bit different than a video game that was compiled only once.