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by hayleox 3360 days ago
Blocking a URL or a CSS class name can be done very efficiently/easily with a browser extension, while running OCR on an ad (most ads are images/videos rather than pure text) to find keywords is much more difficult and computationally expensive. Apparently Princeton made it work, but it's definitely a much more difficult approach to take.
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Finally a reason to upgrade my processor.