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by Kristine1975 3894 days ago
It's possible (or should be possible, it was/is in the browser iCab) to block images depending on their size (and ads often are of the same size, e.g. banner ads). Sure, the browser has to start loading them, but after reading an image's metadata it can stop. And if the img tag contains the image's dimensions, even that can be skipped.