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by throwaway81523 1604 days ago
"Prevalence of ad blockers creates an incentive to do canvas rendering based on a DRM-obfuscated data blob. That's worse for everyone."

Next gen ad blocker will be a headless web browser in a data center to capture the canvas, plus automated video editing to remove the ads.

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That's a terrible future. Maybe it's inevitable. But I won't contribute to the arms race.