It wouldn't control anything on your machine. It allows the web site to control whether they send content to you or not. I use AB Edge. I've visited Reddit, th

It wouldn't control anything on your machine. It allows the web site to control whether they send content to you or not. I use AB Edge. I've visited Reddit, they posted a "we notice you use an ad blocker, if you like us, please think about whitelisting us." They could have just refused to serve the content. Either way would have been acceptable; it's my browser and I control what I see, it's their content and they control where it goes. In that case I whitelisted Reddit. Nothing on Reddit remote-controlled my machine, it just initiated a brief "conversation."