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Unblockable ads and popups, uncopyable text, yay!

• amelius 5y ago
  You can still block ads by recognizing them at the pixel level. Same for copying text. Advantage: you can also select text in images, and block ads that are images.
  • aaaaaaaaaaab 5y ago
    Lol, sure mate. if pixel.isAd { pixel.color = black } Or maybe you thought about using some *waves hands* machine learning™?
    • amelius 5y ago
      Not like that. I meant OCR, which uses pixels as input (as opposed to html).
      • aaaaaaaaaaab 5y ago
        Yeah cool, so you would only be able to select text that's visible? How would you copy the contents of an article spanning multiple screens? Sorry, but this idea is just dumb.
        • amelius 5y ago
          You hit Ctrl+A, and the browser uses off-screen buffers to analyze the entire text.
          • aaaaaaaaaaab 5y ago
            Off-screen buffers? So now you’re prescribing a particular rendering architecture for every app to follow? I thought this was supposed to be just a generic sandbox with a canvas, with no strings attached, but now you require everything to be present in off-screen buffers for your OCR to work? Firstly, it won’t be generic anymore, and secondly, it will also be extremely inefficient.