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An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

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Re: An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

#31

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What part of sending a GET request to view a web page corresponds to ordering chocolate bar?

A GET request is not a request to view a web page, it is a request to receive the page. It is up the recipient to determine if and how the page should be rendered.

You seem to be constantly replying in a way that looks like you disagree with me when in fact we're in agreement!

Re: An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

#32
I asked before, but never really got a good answer. Is this client side only? If not, how are they querying a server? And where can I download the full list of unacceptable ads/sites? And if I can't, why not? And finally, why does this have to be native instead of an extension?

Edit: I guess another question, why aren't the answers to obvious questions like these readily available? Or am I just ignorant?

Re: An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

#34

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Not a great analogy. We all know that HTML is an opt-in language, in that user-agents are designed to render the tags that they support and ignore the ones they don't. My user -agents do not support ads at all.

Your glasses (or AR goggles) when you walk into the store would correspond to the HTML renderer here.

I can't wait for the day that lightweight sun-glass frames can block real-world ads in real-time. Perhaps replacing them with classical art or even white rectangles.

That sounds great.

Re: An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

#35

An attempt by Google to take over the Adblocking market and thus maintain their own whitelist which will obviously not block Adsense ads. I have already moved over to firefox

> maintain their own whitelist which will obviously not block Adsense ads You make this sound like some kind of trick. The stated goal is to block especially obnoxious ads, of the kind adsense doesn't do. I can't say if it's going to be fair or not, but the way it treads adsense specifically isn't going to be the deciding factor.

> especially obnoxious ads, of the kind adsense doesn't do.

That's your opinion, not everyone's. Luckily I'll easily be able to use what meets my definition of obnoxious with this feature (i.e. custom lists for this native blocker) instead of yours or this consortium's, right?

Re: An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

#36

I asked before, but never really got a good answer. Is this client side only? If not, how are they querying a server? And where can I download the full list of unacceptable ads/sites? And if I can't, why not? And finally, why does this have to be native instead of an extension? Edit: I guess another question, why aren't the answers to obvious questions like these readily available? Or am I just ignorant?

I believe this is a hybrid. Chrome sends telemetry data to their server and they already know what kind of sites and ads are blocked.

I think they need correlation of ads shown followed by an adblocker extension install so that they want to block such ads to prevent the growth in adblockers

Re: An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

#38

There are no "better" ads. The only good ads are the ones I cannot see. My computer, my rules. Lately now blocking coin mining in addition to all ads, trackers, beacons, pixels, etc. I have the right to surf on my terms. Traffic to websites is a cost of doing business; don't try to recoup in ways that I never agreed to (mining), selling my data w/o my permissions, etc. You have to love the tripe in the article: "Bett…

I'm sad to see you downvoted into the grey.

>My computer, my rules.

This is really the only thing that matters. Ads are not a working model for monetization on the web for this reason, and this is non-negotiable. Ads are a non-starter. It's as simple as that. If anyone can't find a different way to support their content, then the web is better off without them. "Better ads" is putting lipstick on a pig - I'd sooner not invite the pig into my living room, thank you.

Re: An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)

#40
At this point, I'm dealing with so many pop-ups asking me to turn off my ad-blocker that the original purpose of the ad-blocker (don't bother me) is becoming moot.

If this effort by Google can somehow raise the quality of online ads from horrendous to just terrible, I'll reluctantly support it.

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