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And yet these people somehow maintain immense amounts of ad blocking filters and code, including active counter measures which require reverse engineering web site javascripts. I gotta wonder what would happen if they started making custom clients for each website instead.

>>matheu+(OP)
Adblockers' audience is huge, much more than any single site's audience, and they probably wouldn't care about most single sites (to care, you have to be in the audience, and most sites have small audiences).

>>chromo+91
Someone cared enough to defeat annoying blocker blockers of sites. If they care just a little bit more, they could replace the web developer's code with their own minimal version. Chances are the site doesn't actually need most of the code it includes anyway.

What I'm talking about already exists by the way. Stuff like nitter, teddit, youtube downloaders. I once wrote one for my school's shitty website.