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That just demonstrates that ads are not web-specific, but actor-specific, so that adblock technology should work at the OS level^, like firewall and antivirus. This would shift the problem to bad adblock vendors, but at least we could have few okay-today options to choose from.

^ not gonna happen for most platforms, as it’s walled gardens all the way down, but hopefully some day it will become obvious that adcrap tech stack is a wrong foundation to make computers and their economy.




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