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paxys on April 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: When the business model is the privacy violation

Browser-based ad blocking is pretty easy to bypass for companies like Facebook if they really want to. They already have their own ad network, so they will start serving all content (messages, ads, videos) from the same server with no way to distinguish between them programmatically.

220V_USKettle on April 12, 2018 | [–]

At least, peformance-wise, that would be nice.

hansen on April 13, 2018 | [–]

In Germany ads must be distinguishable from other content. If a human can spot the difference it shouldn’t be too hard to automate that process.

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