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Could the website server make the requests to the ad networks, then serve the responses as if it were native content? Current browser-based blocking tech would

• taejo 10y ago
  No, adblockers also use things like div ids, and potentially even heuristics like image shape.
  • tajen 10y ago
    Safari itself is an ad-blocker, with its "reader mode". I could hardly imagine opening a newspaper page without it. Actually, my iPad 2 isn't powerful enough anymore to open a newspaper page, except if I use the reader mode.
    • dredmorbius 10y ago
      Firefox as well. I use Pocket as a perferred reader generally, though its failure to provide a means of navigating directly to sites, or of showing a navbar, is annoying. (Pocket ... has multiple annoyances. It's better than the alternatives, so far as I've tried, but that is one hellaciously low-set bar.)