alt Hacker NewsThis is a solved problem for at least ad blockers for over a decade on iOS. The ad blocking extension gives Safari a list of URLs and regex expressions to block
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bpt3 • yesterday at 4:27 PM
It's solved if you trust Safari. I'm not sure that's the case for the parent poster.
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No, it's a solved problem for ad blockers, a very specific problem case that extensions have traditionally solved. But the entire concept of extensions is far greater than just "ad blockers", although that's the use case for which 99.9% of people have used them for.
But there are other uses cases, like cloud2butt.