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JoshMnem on Nov 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebAssembly: a binary format for the web

What will this mean for blocking ads and certain trackers? If the source of the page isn't viewable, how will users know what the code is doing?

pritambaral on Nov 2, 2015 [–]

I'm sure you can still inspect the DOM and the network calls made by the page. DOMs, URLs, and HTTP aren't going anywhere.

And the current ad-blockers almost never go through the source code of a script, only the src and the URLs

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