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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by felarof on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:59AM (#44532891)
+1, enabling uBlock origin could be a short term solution.

But we are working on adding built-in adblockers just like Brave + enhancing it to detect more ad formats using lightweight local LLM.

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by mdaniel on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:09PM (#44538419)
> enhancing it to detect more ad formats using lightweight local LLM.

So you're going to boot up my_llm.prompt("is this request an ad? %s" % request.copy_as_curl()) for every XHR on the page?!

I know this comment is on a page about an AI web browser, but let's turn down the "LLMs cure all problems" a notch

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