Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson

Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by JohnFen on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:33PM (#22447735)

WebAssembly expands on the ability to do client-side stuff and makes it more accessible, so my fear is that it will make it more common.

That's pretty much the entire difference. It's a difference of degree more than of kind. As I said, Javascript is making much of the web inaccessible to me, and WebAssembly, if it becomes popular, will only accelerate this loss.

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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by ficklepickle on Saturday February 29, 2020 @04:21AM (#22449773)

I wonder how feasible a rendering proxy would be. It would run the JS in a simulated browser environment and return the HTML.

Interactivity would be tricky, but static HTML is better than a blank page.

Edit: Found something very similar, but it targets legacy browsers using clickable image maps rather than privacy/security.

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp

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