And therein lies my problem... "Your follows want you to see that ad". My follows currently have more control over what I see than I do. All they need to do, to force my client to download junk from any relay against my will, is to add it to their list (whether their intention is good or not). That puts me in the situation where I have to play whackamole with spam every time I follow a new person or one of my follows adds a fringe relay.

I'm not making things up to be upset about... 😅 The new setup makes it impossible to protect myself from CP ads by default, and the old way did not have this problem. Every day on the # asknostr hashtag I see multiple CP spam ads, and I have no recourse but to find out what relays they are posted to and manually block them after the fact.

I fully understand the mechanism, and why you have chosen to take this route. That's perfectly acceptable as it's your choice and what works for a lot of people. That is why I phrased my question as "could this be an option?", for those who the other way worked better for. 🧡