[nostrademons]

That's basically what Brave does - web browser with a built-in adblocker. Or, for that matter, Chrome with any adblocking extension. It's not illegal, but it's not exactly popular with webmasters, and they're within their rights to block access to these browsers. In practice it tends to evolve into a cat-and-mouse game where adblockers block the ads, websites try to detect the adblockers and show you a pop-up encouraging you to turn off the adblocker, adblockers try to block the pop-ups, and so on.

[hombre_fatal]

Brave does more than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

Adblock Plus should fork its own web browser with built-in Acceptable Ads whitelisting. It'd be more honest than Brave.

[roblabla]

Acceptable Ads is anything but honest. They take money to whitelist ads. Including ads from Taboola, one of the worst ad network. https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/google-microsoft-amazon-ta...

[Marsymars]

Now, I'm not a user of Acceptable Ads, but I don't think either their specific policy of taking money to whitelist AA-compliant ads from large companies, or having that policy apply to entities that have otherwise scummy ads is necessarily dishonest.

[roblabla]

- Taboola ads are scummy

- Acceptable Ads is not supposed to allow scummy ads

- Taboola paid to get their ads accepted

- Acceptable Ads is dishonest

If you google a bit, you'll find that the ads that get whitelisted under Acceptable Ads are nothing different from the normal Taboola bullshit. In fact, the whitelist is quite simple: They allow the whole taboola network to operate.

[deytempo]

Webmasters hate it when you do this but there’s nothing they can do to stop you

[ineedasername]

Yep, it's one secret technique they don't want you to know about.