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kind9 posted...

Do you not actually know what "DOM monitoring" (an apparent redundancy) means? Or were you so injured by my passive aggressiveness that you don't want to answer? I really would like to know what you're talking about when you say that. If you don't want to explain yourself then why speak up at all? Adding quite literally nothing to the conversation.

Because as far as I know ad blockers like uBO work entirely on the host machine within your browser, which seems to me makes it nobody's business but my own. It's my browser, so I should be able to determine exactly what is or isn't displayed within it.

I doubt anybody takes the W3C seriously anymore, but google is a member, and one of their stated ethical principals is that websites should never restrict what users can do with their browser, including using blockers of unwanted content.

I've never tried but I guess you could use the DOM mutation watchers to figure out something is not right.
Probably easier to calculate your styles and see if the spot where the ad is supposed to be is blank.