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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by autoexec on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:04PM (#38045118)
I wouldn't, because sending all of your browsing history to any third party is going to result in them mining and selling it, or exposing it to state actors or someone else for direct surveillance/malware injection.

Eventually, AI will be something we can run locally on a typical desktop, or even a cell phone, and at that point we could locally host that kind of ad blocking, but trusting all of your traffic to some random company that promises to delete ads but not abuse their position seems naive given our situation today. It preserves the worst dangers of ads while adding even less control and transparency for the user.

Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by danielheath on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:43PM (#38045402)
I’ve been interested in a desktop AI ad blocker for awhile, but it doesn’t solve the issue of malware being distributed via ad networks, or the performance impact of all that extra js and network traffic.
Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by __MatrixMan__ on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:41PM (#38065431)
I think it does.

Run the whole thing in a sandbox and have the AI exfiltrate the content as a static DOM (no js). Once you know which DOMs go with which URL's you can gossip those peer-to-peer and not bother actually talking to the site at all (although one of us should hit the actual site every now and then, just in case the content changes).

Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by snoman on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:56PM (#38046657)
I believe (but do not know) that ad networks already do some of that.