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I am so annoyed with this. It feels like every advance in web browser technology takes away as much as it gives. Some days, it feels like the web was better back in the HTML4 days.

Can't wait to see how WebAssembly will be used against us.

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Just wait till you get a load of content rendering engines being written in (dynamicly re-obfuscated) web assembly and rendered via canvas, so users are totally locked out of modifying content loaded into them or blocking ads.

This is already being worked on.

It's being fought before it's even fully grown.

Computer vision adblockers are also being worked on.

A sad and stupid zero-sum game wasting both talent and electricity.

Any links to that? What kind of enemies of mankind are working on this? Advertisers again?

> Can't wait to see how WebAssembly will be used against us.

Have you heard of Coinhive [1]? They are using WebAssembly to mine bitcoins in the browser.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive...

On the other hand, this method might be a good way to 'pay' for using a service instead of ads, so long as it's opt-in and the user knows about it.

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