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		beerandt on Sept 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The NSA and CIA use ad blockers I mean, it's always been a bit mind blowing to me that companies relied on client-side processing for their business models to work. It seems like server-side, dynamically generated static content would have at least been explored more than it seemingly has. I always assumed this was what Google was always trying to eventually get to with AMP.

closeparen on Sept 23, 2021 [–]

The people who control the backend servers have an obvious incentive to rip off the ad networks. Clients are more trustworthy in this context.

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