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WASM plus encryption will mean it could be illegal to decrypt/alter website code just like a Netflix video stream. Adblock criminalization is close.

nine_k 5y ago
Adblock / pihole technical impossibility, too.
- entropicdrifter 5y ago
  Maybe they could bypass it in Chrome, but it wouldn't make it impossible to use for anyone smart enough to set up a pihole.
  - EvanAnderson 5y ago
    The WASM code will eventually implement its own DNS analog (or use DoH with a pinned certificate). It'll all be completely opaque TLS to your Pi Hole. Your Pi Hole is the same thing, functionally, as the tools a nation state hostile to human rights uses to filter the Internet. You'll get the same treatment that they do.
    - withinboredom 5y ago
      That’s when you install squid and have it do the terminating TLS. They won’t pin the certs, too many corps do this already and not to mention certificate lifetime is in the realm of leaving a browser open for weeks.
      - deeter72 5y ago
        Deploying squid is not simple as deploying a PiHole.
  - shawnz 5y ago
    DNS blocking is way more trivial to bypass than client-side blocking.
slimsag 5y ago
Have no fear, for the ads ARE already here. * Want to watch YouTube ad-free on an iPhone? We've blocked every possible way unless you want to pay us - and we're still gonna spy on you. * Not a fan of ads while watching TV? Well, tough luck. They're injected by the TV manufacturer. * Want to pay for your content? Feel free to subscribe to Hulu, just don't expect ads to go away. * Tired of seeing ads in Twitch? Well, Amazon sent legal takedowns to every successful ad blocker for Twitch - hope you're keen to write your own. Sure sure sure: the techies here can workaround some of these. But your above-average person cannot, this has been normalized and is now _expected_.
- gentleman11 5y ago
  I stopped watching twitch after Amazon took over. They changed it, it’s so aggressive and full of little dark patterns and micro rewards now to try and hook people

nine_k 5y ago

Adblock / pihole technical impossibility, too.

entropicdrifter 5y ago
Maybe they could bypass it in Chrome, but it wouldn't make it impossible to use for anyone smart enough to set up a pihole.
- EvanAnderson 5y ago
  The WASM code will eventually implement its own DNS analog (or use DoH with a pinned certificate). It'll all be completely opaque TLS to your Pi Hole. Your Pi Hole is the same thing, functionally, as the tools a nation state hostile to human rights uses to filter the Internet. You'll get the same treatment that they do.
  - withinboredom 5y ago
    That’s when you install squid and have it do the terminating TLS. They won’t pin the certs, too many corps do this already and not to mention certificate lifetime is in the realm of leaving a browser open for weeks.
    - deeter72 5y ago
      Deploying squid is not simple as deploying a PiHole.
- shawnz 5y ago
  DNS blocking is way more trivial to bypass than client-side blocking.

slimsag 5y ago

Have no fear, for the ads ARE already here. * Want to watch YouTube ad-free on an iPhone? We've blocked every possible way unless you want to pay us - and we're still gonna spy on you. * Not a fan of ads while watching TV? Well, tough luck. They're injected by the TV manufacturer. * Want to pay for your content? Feel free to subscribe to Hulu, just don't expect ads to go away. * Tired of seeing ads in Twitch? Well, Amazon sent legal takedowns to every successful ad blocker for Twitch - hope you're keen to write your own. Sure sure sure: the techies here can workaround some of these. But your above-average person cannot, this has been normalized and is now _expected_.

gentleman11 5y ago
I stopped watching twitch after Amazon took over. They changed it, it’s so aggressive and full of little dark patterns and micro rewards now to try and hook people