• Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    The moment [the ad] is rendered, their device can be hacked, so there’s really no defence against this, short of not using a smart phone or [not] connecting to the internet

    I’ve looked at the discussion at the GOS but I’m still confused on whether AdBlocker would work. They say that if there is a persistent new ad, that it can take the ad blocker sometime to add it to the filter.

    Maybe I’m not 100% how an ad blocker works then because I thought it prevents the ad window from loading entirely and ad windows are correctly labelled as ads? Or do they work by filtering what the ad window is trying to load data from?