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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by inlined on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:25AM (#30412508)
I think the solution will be for ad blockers to invest in neural nets to detect the graph of the code flow for known variants of the script. The software that detects plagiarism will be a good start.
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by xigoi on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:03AM (#30412694)
That sounds like it's going to be slower than not using an ad blocker at all.
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by aembleton on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:22AM (#30414033)
Not if the signatures are uploaded and shared.
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by brobinson on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:25AM (#30416188)
Hashmap lookups are O(1)
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