Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I've never installed this or any similar system under the assumption 
> that it is almost guaranteed not to work.

  Just try it. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

> Designing a mere algorithm which can determine, with 100% accuracy, the 
> difference between vital content and useless advertising garbage looks 
> almost intractably difficult. Thus, the result would almost certainly be 
> a system which either fails to block the majority of ads, or blocks the 
> majority of useful content. (Or possibly both, at the same time.)

  It doesn't need to do smart filtering. It only needs a blacklist. Said
list updates automatically.

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