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Has there been any serious thought / discussion about how the cat and mouse chase of the ads vs ad blockers is going to end? It would be interesting to see where we are in ten years.
They've already won.
How We Make Money at Stack Overflow: 2016 Edition: Quality ads. "...we don’t want to use an automated system that selects some ads for us. We looked at this. It didn’t allow us the control we required to maintain the level of quality we want to maintain." How We Make Money at Stack Overflow: 2019 Edition: Taking money from Microsoft and Google fingerprinting our users 100+ ways source: https://stackoverflow.blog/2016…
1. Text based ads only (no third party js)
2. HTML based ads but no js (run it through DOMPurify https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify)
3. Look for a js sandbox -- this _will_ break arbitrary js, will not be supported in all browsers, and will require dev work on your side:
* Google Caja https://github.com/google/caja
* MentalJS https://github.com/hackvertor/MentalJSI think using a sandbox iframe is not going to be able to defeat browser fingerprinting, because the sandbox control options are not rich enough. You would need to block all JS.
This would get rid of the greasy ads, and Google could focus on making tools that allow site owners to filter by "features used in ad", and ad developers could actually return to delivering ads, rather than collecting fingerprints?
And this is why, even with the best intentions of site operators, my browser will continue to use the best ad-block tools I can get, and my networks will be protected by tools like PiHole.
This seems melodramatic for something as trivial as an audio request.
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I think ad blocking is a misnomer. What people are trying to do when blocking ads is prevent marketing people from spying on them. And the performance and resource consumption that comes from that. Personal opinion: Laws are needed to make what advertisers are doing illegal. Advertisers are spying on people to the extent where if the government did it they'd need a warrant.
I'm only mildly bothered by the tracking, since it seems so inaccurate, but the ads themselves always drive me to adblockers. Taboola were running pictures of rotten teeth for a while which was intolerable; Youtube ads are often louder than the videos.
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This seems melodramatic for something as trivial as an audio request.
Arbitrary code execution isnt really that trivial.
Has there been any serious thought / discussion about how the cat and mouse chase of the ads vs ad blockers is going to end? It would be interesting to see where we are in ten years.
And this is why, even with the best intentions of site operators, my browser will continue to use the best ad-block tools I can get, and my networks will be protected by tools like PiHole.
This seems melodramatic for something as trivial as an audio request.
It’s not harmful, as long as you’re not one of the people who gets tricked. But it does indicate that they want to do you harm, and try to. That they failed doesn’t make it all better.
Has there been any serious thought / discussion about how the cat and mouse chase of the ads vs ad blockers is going to end? It would be interesting to see where we are in ten years.