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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

A good ad blocker would be one that will still load the page as intended but not display the ads. There would be no way for the site to know you can't see them. Blocking their activation just signals the site that you are using an adblocker.

Edit: I was thinking more of a VM sandbox like another comment said

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sandbox the ads. Trick them into thinking the playback is finished. If there is a timer that prevents skipping, modify timing calls to shorten the duration. Or execute faster than real-time.

If there is some kind of timer callback to server, it would even be preferable to have ad "running" invisibly with a progress bar and no ad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I'd tolerate an adless grey timer, you don't even have to trick it that time has passed.

Just open in another tab, wait for skip option, skip (but probably not in a perfectly timed robotic way), then pause. Grey and silent midroll would be annoying but still tolerable.

People who know programming and how far it can go seem to sometimes trap themselves in very difficult problems that would be great to solve, but undervalue a version without that complicated luxury.

I'm all for trying to solve it, but a tool that doesn't is still good. I just don't want to be aware of what the companies want to make me aware of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pretty soon there will be captchas that are ads. Or they'll get around to implementing tech to force you to watch it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is really what I was thinking of

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be rendering potentially malicious code in the ad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago