> Ad blocking breaks this harmony. I have yet to find anyone who talks about "harmony" who actually spews anything other than concentrated bullshit. Example: p

> Ad blocking breaks this harmony. I have yet to find anyone who talks about "harmony" who actually spews anything other than concentrated bullshit. Example: pretty much everything the Chinese government says and does in the name of preserving "harmony". It may have been a useful philosophical concept in the past, but it's been misused so much by shysters lately that the mere appearance of the "H" word is an instant red flag to me. EasyList might not be able to block their clever tricks, but isn't it about time we came up with a better way to detect anything the user doesn't want? EFF's Privacy Badger uses heuristics to determine whether a given script is trying to track the user. Perhaps adblockers need to take a similar approach. For example, they could check whether an element that is displayed by default on page load obscures the primary textual content of the page, or compare the current page with one that was shown to a well-known search engine.