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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:44PM (#38500306)
Thank you! I guess the main problem is figuring out which elements are ads. Blocking certain requests is a handy way to do that, at least for as long as external ad servers are the norm.

> Simple injected Javascript can't e.g. undo requests (from other scripts or just normal resources like third-party images)

But could you detect the request, see what element it loaded in, and then hide that element? Or is that much more complicated than I'm imagining?

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by lxgr on Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:03PM (#38500485)
If you only care about visual annoyances I believe that should generally be possible (although I also don't know the details!), but many people also use content filters to stop third-party tracking.
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