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Pretty lean extension, you basically set the playback rate of an Ad to 16 and automatically click on skip ad when it appears. If this becomes popular, Google c

Pretty lean extension, you basically set the playback rate of an Ad to 16 and automatically click on skip ad when it appears. If this becomes popular, Google can copy Facebook anti blocker methods and just randomize the classnames and Dom depth of nodes for the button. And they could honey pot it with hidden elements or image buttons.

y42 2y ago
can't we adapt this to other forms of ads, meaning changing visuals to a height x width of 1x1? This will not save bandwidth, but 'their' algos still assume we're loading and displaying ads.
- dkraj 2y ago
  Yes we can just hide any type of ads with this strategy keeping our account also safe not like how accounts got banned using uBlock
dkraj 2y ago
Yes you are right they can do this but it's not that easy to do and also these big tech giants can't just simply update the code like we can. Everything goes through a process which takes ample amount of time and If they does it also, I will come out with some more solution.
gmerc 2y ago
I see some potential for an LLM to unfuck the dom - ultimately there’s going to be patterns
- skulk 2y ago
  feeding an entire DOM tree into an LLM and waiting for the response sounds like a terrible thing to include in a latency-sensitive render pipeline.
  - gmerc 2y ago
    longer than loading dozens of shit js, tracking pixels and obfuscation code into the renderer? The moment I can use a cheap edge LLM to reduce the entire page to the few bullet points I care about with optional expansion of content I don’t really care much anymore about render timing - the ultimate cost on us is extraction the information we want from the page, which is getting more and more enshittified because our attention is being sold.
  - gmerc 2y ago
    Looks like apple thinks so too https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/safari-ai-features-coming-in-ios-18/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/safari-ai-features-comi...
- dkraj 2y ago
  I see your point. Getting the pattern from DOM to create something custom is possible but not in real time. We can not just rely on that. Finding pattern is good but relying on that is not

y42 2y ago

can't we adapt this to other forms of ads, meaning changing visuals to a height x width of 1x1? This will not save bandwidth, but 'their' algos still assume we're loading and displaying ads.

dkraj 2y ago
Yes we can just hide any type of ads with this strategy keeping our account also safe not like how accounts got banned using uBlock

dkraj 2y ago

Yes you are right they can do this but it's not that easy to do and also these big tech giants can't just simply update the code like we can. Everything goes through a process which takes ample amount of time and If they does it also, I will come out with some more solution.

gmerc 2y ago

I see some potential for an LLM to unfuck the dom - ultimately there’s going to be patterns

skulk 2y ago
feeding an entire DOM tree into an LLM and waiting for the response sounds like a terrible thing to include in a latency-sensitive render pipeline.
- gmerc 2y ago
  longer than loading dozens of shit js, tracking pixels and obfuscation code into the renderer? The moment I can use a cheap edge LLM to reduce the entire page to the few bullet points I care about with optional expansion of content I don’t really care much anymore about render timing - the ultimate cost on us is extraction the information we want from the page, which is getting more and more enshittified because our attention is being sold.
- gmerc 2y ago
  Looks like apple thinks so too https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/safari-ai-features-coming-in-ios-18/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/safari-ai-features-comi...
dkraj 2y ago
I see your point. Getting the pattern from DOM to create something custom is possible but not in real time. We can not just rely on that. Finding pattern is good but relying on that is not