• Polar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Ads can contain code, making them almost like small applications that run when loaded.

    Which browser in 2023 would dare allow that to run?

    • VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works
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      The code is JavaScript–an integral part of displaying modern websites. Not since the days before 2001 and very simple browsers like Netscape Navigator 3 and Internet Explorer 3 that didn’t yet have javascript. Today that is what adblock is doing - it stops loading untrustworthy or unwanted bits and pieces of code while still giving the end-user (most of) the javascripts they need. Instead of the default action, “ok, gimme the whole webpage code, as-is”. That last sentence, that’s Chrome. I can explain it some more further. But that’s the jist of it.