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> Maybe using an archive.is-like service that renders the static page (as an image at the extreme), or a Tor-like service and randomizes one's IP address and br
by cookiengineer 5y ago
> Maybe using an archive.is-like service that renders the static page (as an image at the extreme), or a Tor-like service and randomizes one's IP address and browser fingerprint.
I'm building a peer-to-peer network of Web Browsers [1] that doesn't trust anything by default, and only allows to render types of content incrementally; while disabling JS completely. Most of the time, you can find out what the content is with heuristics. The crappy occasional web apps that don't work without JS can be rendered temporarily in an isolated sandbox in /tmp anyways.
I think that the only way to get ahead of the adblocking game is to instead of maintaining blocklists, we need to move to a system that has allowlists for content. The user has to be able to decide whether they're expecting a website serving a video, or whether the expectation is to get text content, image content, audio content etc. News websites are the prime example of how "wrong" ads can get. Autoplayed videos, dozens of popups, flashing advertisements and I haven't even had time to read a single paragraph of the article.
And to get ahead of the "if fanboy gets hit by the bus" problem... we need to crowdsource this kind of meta information in a decentralized and distributed manner.
[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth