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Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race

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dlubarov wrote: post #172

> Because advertisers must comply with these regulations, the authors imagine an "end game" in which consumers—and ad blockers—ultimately win. I don't entirely agree. Websites have an advantage too: they can withhold the interesting content until a time of their choosing. For example, a blog could - Serve an ad page initially - Include some javascript to load the text of the blog post - Have the request handler for t…

I already encounter similar case with the overuse of unnecessary visual effects, anti adblock and other dark patterns.

3 things can happen: - I use firebug to fix this

- I look at source and extract the URL to actual content

- I change my user-agent to that of the bot that indexed the content

But 99% of the time I don't waste my time with this useless piece of crap and move to the next thing. 0,0001% of the time I sent an informative email to the abuse or contact citing the relevant piece of legislation explaining how this is illegal and what the punishment for this could be.

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mattb314 wrote: post #85

Slightly related question from a non-expert in ad-blocking: is it possible to block interstitial ads? While the freedom to render a page as you wish seems to come with controlling the browser on your computer, I can't imagine any way to circumvent the ads the obstruct the entire page and force you to wait for a few seconds before seeing content. Obviously you can just choose not to render them, but if the server can…

no script, no interstitial.

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avaer wrote: post #256

Prediction: AI ad blockers become accurate and automatic enough; ads mutate into AI-based transformation of content to include paid placements. The price of the news article or Youtube video of the future is that when you see someone drinking a Pepsi, you can't be sure if they ever actually did that. Or whether your friends saw the Pepsi when they watched the same thing in the other room. And thus ad blockers cease t…

Disabling script and going to simple html and css would render this AI-based transformation useless.

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peterwwillis wrote: post #32

"A favorable legal climate and the existence of browsers friendly toward ad-blocking extensions are two key factors that may tip the scales toward users." On the technical side, Google can just close up its browser, prevent ad-blocking malware, require only compliant browsers to connect to its site, and all sites that depend on advertising dollars can jump on board. Unless they decide to simply change the regulations…

I have a hard time understanding what you are trying to say.

> Once faced with having to pay for the internet again

Don't you have to pay an ISP for your internet connection right now ? Apart from the ISP when exactly did anyone had to "pay for the internet" ?

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mankash666 wrote: post #102

State of the art in advertising today, is pusing it via websockets. This extension failed to detect those ads. PornHub is one example, with plenty others using webSockets.

It seems to me that current content blockers had already addressed websockets for ads.

here: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/5aqlok/pornhu...

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Post by clubm8 »

bigbugbag wrote: post #348
clubm8 wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Ghostery overkill if you already use NoScript?

Ghostery is tracking and profiling people who block ads for the ad industry. Don't use it. Use ublock origin or umatrix or request policy[1] you could also use random agent spoofer and better privacy or privacy settings. [1]: https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/

Oh cool, I didn't realize uBlock Origin blocked trackers - thought it was just blocking ads.
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