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It doesn't matter how good your browser is when you can only access content through an app.
That's the way things are headed, I'm afraid. In a few years you won't be able to load Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, or Twitter(formally X) from a browser.
Bleak but probably true. Cabin in the woods with a good book is my future.
What do you mean all the woods are "gone"?
Paper books won't be available either. You'll be watching ads in your cabin where the woods used to be.
They do still have to cater to desktop users, so I imagine accessible websites for those platforms will exist for many years to come.
This is also yet another reason why it's important to defend desktops in the face of people who think phones and tablets are "good enough."
"Just download our app on the Microsoft Store/App Store!" /s
An ad-blocking DNS server on your local network should work for apps too, right? (As long as the ads are hosted on known ad servers.)
Should, yes, but the page/site may have ways to detect if the ad loads or not and still trigger "adblock in use".
A DNS-based approach also won't work if the ads come from the same domain as the content.