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Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by ricardobeat » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 10:52 AM UTC

sleepychu wrote: post #15

minaguib wrote: post #7

I work in ad tech, and indeed some areas and experiences are less-than-optimal, especially in RTB. Unless the site owner is selling highly-custom take-overs, skins or other non-standard formats, ad interference with site content and layout is almost entirely eliminated via the use of iframes.

I consider iframes to be basically the most egregious ad insert.

Why? It is safer, doesn't block loading of main page assets and causes way less breakage when things go wrong.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by cbsmith » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 12:12 PM UTC

Anyone know what ad network failed?

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by sleepychu » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 4:41 PM UTC

ricardobeat wrote: post #31

sleepychu wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I consider iframes to be basically the most egregious ad insert.

Why? It is safer, doesn't block loading of main page assets and causes way less breakage when things go wrong.

You're forcing me to make a request to the ad suppliers server. I understand this isn't unique to iframes but I'd much prefer that any ad content is proxied by the server I'm actually looking at. I go on a lot in comments about the invasion of privacy that ads represent and I think iframes go a long way to perpetuating that poor privacy 'deal' so reject them with aggression. I often find I'm forced to use the mouse to grant them any focus (which is frustrating for me because I don't like using mouse pointers but I imagine it causes all sorts of havoc with accessibility).