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You can still block those blobs, as they too are loaded by URL.

nyolfen 6y ago
what i am envisioning here is the content of a webpage compiled with ads therein. it would be desirable by the googles of the world for this very reason.
- kroltan 6y ago
  This can happen as it stands with JS too, though.
- catlifeonmars 6y ago
  This is still possible using JavaScript, and yet it is not widely seen. You can think of WebAssembly as another mechanism for executing code in the browser in the context of a web page. JavaScript is still required to (1) load the wasm binary, (2) evaluate it and (3) connect it to DOM APIs or really anything outside of the isolated wasm execution context.
  - rasz 6y ago
    How you block some forms of tracking/ads is you inject your own STUB javascript functionality before the offending script loads. https://github.com/uBlock-user/uBO-Scriptlets https://github.com/uBlock-user/uBO-Scriptlets This wont work with webassembly.
    - Alexendoo 6y ago
      None of these scriptlets would break if a site uses WASM, they're utilities for things like adding/removing/mutating elements from the DOM, modifying localStorage, stopping alert() executesitefunction.js could arguably be effected, but that relies on a site installing a particular function on window, which isn't required when using JS, and could be still done where the function is backed by WASM
      - rasz 6y ago
        Hmm this repo doesnt have the currently used scriptlets.js file, weird. I think this is the official one https://git.furworks.de/opensourcemirror/ublock-origin/src/branch/master/assets/resources/scriptlets.js https://git.furworks.de/opensourcemirror/ublock-origin/src/b... A lot of stubs, a lot of functionality to kill a script when tripping certain trigger action, or force some properties.
- avbor 6y ago
  Don't worry, won't be likely to happen - the ads that are displayed now as banners are literally bid on when it's loading, so at most the ad serving code would be bundled, but you would still be able to block the binaries they load.
- qbasic_forever 6y ago
  Advertisers would hate that kind of model. They want perfectly targeted and customized ads for each individual viewer. Baking the ads into the content or page itself would be going back about 20 years in their world.
  - Kuinox 6y ago
    They can bake the ad servers side in the binaries.
    - pshc 6y ago
      They could do bake ads in JS too, but websites aren’t really incentivized to do so as it would increase latency and complexity.
      - afiori 6y ago
        And also advertizers rightly do not trust the content provider not to lie about how many times they showed the ad.

what i am envisioning here is the content of a webpage compiled with ads therein. it would be desirable by the googles of the world for this very reason.

kroltan 6y ago
This can happen as it stands with JS too, though.
catlifeonmars 6y ago
This is still possible using JavaScript, and yet it is not widely seen. You can think of WebAssembly as another mechanism for executing code in the browser in the context of a web page. JavaScript is still required to (1) load the wasm binary, (2) evaluate it and (3) connect it to DOM APIs or really anything outside of the isolated wasm execution context.
- rasz 6y ago
  How you block some forms of tracking/ads is you inject your own STUB javascript functionality before the offending script loads. https://github.com/uBlock-user/uBO-Scriptlets https://github.com/uBlock-user/uBO-Scriptlets This wont work with webassembly.
  - Alexendoo 6y ago
    None of these scriptlets would break if a site uses WASM, they're utilities for things like adding/removing/mutating elements from the DOM, modifying localStorage, stopping alert() executesitefunction.js could arguably be effected, but that relies on a site installing a particular function on window, which isn't required when using JS, and could be still done where the function is backed by WASM
    - rasz 6y ago
      Hmm this repo doesnt have the currently used scriptlets.js file, weird. I think this is the official one https://git.furworks.de/opensourcemirror/ublock-origin/src/branch/master/assets/resources/scriptlets.js https://git.furworks.de/opensourcemirror/ublock-origin/src/b... A lot of stubs, a lot of functionality to kill a script when tripping certain trigger action, or force some properties.
avbor 6y ago
Don't worry, won't be likely to happen - the ads that are displayed now as banners are literally bid on when it's loading, so at most the ad serving code would be bundled, but you would still be able to block the binaries they load.
qbasic_forever 6y ago
Advertisers would hate that kind of model. They want perfectly targeted and customized ads for each individual viewer. Baking the ads into the content or page itself would be going back about 20 years in their world.
- Kuinox 6y ago
  They can bake the ad servers side in the binaries.
  - pshc 6y ago
    They could do bake ads in JS too, but websites aren’t really incentivized to do so as it would increase latency and complexity.
    - afiori 6y ago
      And also advertizers rightly do not trust the content provider not to lie about how many times they showed the ad.