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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by dmurray on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:14AM (#23526490)
The arms race is that the next time you come back to the page, the offending element has a slightly different style (randomized CSS class name, RGB values changed by 1, font size changed by 0.1...) and your browser doesn't recognise it as being the right element to block.
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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by chmod775 on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:59AM (#23526812)
Match by ranges so changing values by 1 doesn't work. At the end of the day a human would have to come up with an entirely alternative style for the page to defeat your filters.

Pretty much any machine generated variations can also be defeated automatically by a machine. If defeating your filters takes a lot of work, and only helps until a few days later you update your filters in a few minutes, nobody is gonna bother.

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Re:Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? by dredmorbius on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:26AM (#23526574)
Whitelist, not blacklist.

Which whould break CSS minifiers, but that's the point.

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