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It would be nice if there was a univesal ad blocker that worked everywhere...
by troymc 4y ago
It would be nice if there was a univesal ad blocker that worked everywhere...
- squarefoot 4y agoTo be effective it would however need all applications plus the underlying OS to be Open Source, since hiding code that phones home on an encrypted covert channel, for example using the same addresses and ports used for updates, then shows ads to the user, is a lot easier on closed systems. How could the user know, for example, that among the 350 MB of updates the OS just downloaded, half of it are actually adverts that will be shown according to certain conditions such as date and time, sites visited, online searches, email contents, software installed or removed, etc.