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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by kaba0 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:03AM (#27131172)
How does it help here? They can trivially include ads server-side, pi-hole would see nothing at all.
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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by guntars on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:29AM (#27131449)
You can do it, but it’s not done commonly. The most common way ads get onto the page is by including a third party script which is easily blocked.
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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by irrational on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:42AM (#27131599)
Today, but this entire discussion is about how things will work tomorrow.
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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by dahfizz on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:19PM (#27132043)
It would be easy to implement server-side rendering, but it carries significant cost in processing time and networking. If they can block all adblocking browser extensions by abusing WASM, the cost of server-side rendering will outweigh the 0.0001% of people that have a pihole set up.
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