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Blocking is itself a communications channel. You have some data to exfiltrate from extension to server. The page embeds a bunch of URLs to your ad server, you s
by sfink 7y ago
Blocking is itself a communications channel. You have some data to exfiltrate from extension to server. The page embeds a bunch of URLs to your ad server, you selectively block based on the data to exfiltrate, the server gets 1 bit per URL.
Any additional blocking capabilities (reordering, delaying, selective header stripping) increase the number of bits.