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If ad blockers go by URLs, why don’t advertisers simply serve ads from the same domain with a path masquerading as content?



Youtube (and IIRC adobe) ads work like that. Either from the same domain, or a subdomain.

ublock origin has a "DNS unmasking" feature in firefox that defeats this. I think there's a less effective workaround used for other browsers.


They don't trust the websites not to tamper with stuff.


That makes sense, they wouldn’t be able to reliably collect metrics.




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