Reddit experiments on users, forcing them to install app or else not use Reddit

Re:Reddit experiments on users, forcing them to install app ... by geysersam on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:57AM (#36295638)

> Expect content blockers to become way less effective in the coming years

That's s very sad and probably very accurate analysis!

Wonder if the arms-race will give rise to other kinds of add blockers that use image recognition to identify ads. But that still requires rendering the ads (even if only in the background), removing much of the benefit of ad-blockers.

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Re:Reddit experiments on users, forcing them to install app ... by kroltan on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:21PM (#36296043)

I suspect some might be able to rise up by injecting themselves at framework level, since it's very likely that the programs will still keep some sort of in-memory representation. Though I don't think that injecting code into other WebAssembly blobs is possible with the security models we have today.

The surefire way would be an external application that uses OS APIs to fiddle with memory directly (bye bye mobile content blockers).

But whatever form it takes, it would have to be programmed to operate on every framework available, so it's way less universal than writing a CSS selector or URL regex.

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