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Re:Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ by tablespoon on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:46PM (#27935981)
> Meh, I'll use the Mozilla VR OS with uBlock 2040 on it

Adblockers may not work so well in the future, when everything's a binary blob of Web Assembly.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ by grishka on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:38PM (#27936953)
Android apps are binary blobs of dalvik bytecode, yet simply blocking a bunch of domains at the DNS level is surprisingly effective to get rid of most ads.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ by sudosysgen on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:54PM (#27937100)
Also, tools like lucky patcher can do bytecode analysis and patch out ads automatically.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ by lindseymysse on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:38PM (#27936962)
Hopefully we can get enough people into decentralized, ad-free social media ecosystems before this is a problem.

But, really, the problem is the vulture capitalists who can't conceive of building anything, only exploiting everything.

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