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Ask HN: Why is Firefox Focus not able to block ads on Google AMP pages?

2 points by abhishtu 8y ago

smartician 8y ago
Usually ad blockers work by maintaining a blacklist of known ad server hosts and/or IP addresses, and simply block any requests to these. With AMP though, any content (even ads) is funneled through a proxy CDN (the AMP cache), so ads are indistinguishable from regular content with this method.
- abhishtu 8y ago
  Ah, so no way to block those ads anymore? Most websites load AMP pages now and I tried using duckduckgo for a while but didn't like it much.