171–180 of 280 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is wrong. Not sure where you got that idea from.
Search 'hr platform' and you only get ads for HR platforms. At no point will you see totally unrelated ads for stuff you didn't search for, since those will do much worse than contextual ones in the search context.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
But what do you see as the alternative for funding sites? The site we're on is funded by (declarative, non-personalized, non-obtrusive) ads. I would rather have ads than paywalls.
If a website cannot survive without ads, maybe it doesn't need to actually exist in the first place. The world will go on.
I think this sounds more like some sort of fingerprinting attempt. It good to see that random access to these kind of resources fails due to new(er) browser controls. However, this does not mean that the fingerprinting actually failed. There is probably some way to determine if the request was denied automatically by the browser or manually by the user (e.g., time to get "response"), which is definitely something whi…
> It is particularly useful to identify malicious visitors attempting to circumvent tracking
Ah yes, the visitor trying to not be tracked is the malicious one. Barf.
I think this sounds more like some sort of fingerprinting attempt. It good to see that random access to these kind of resources fails due to new(er) browser controls. However, this does not mean that the fingerprinting actually failed. There is probably some way to determine if the request was denied automatically by the browser or manually by the user (e.g., time to get "response"), which is definitely something whi…
The script at https://cdn.js7k.com/ix/talon-1.0.37.js is an ad verification library developed by Verizon Media (formerly Oath), and it does, among other things,, fingerprinting for bot detection purposes (because they want to prevent ad fraud). It was served together with the actual ad media (so called "creative") into the safeframe.
This a relativity begin case. Iv'e seen much more terrible stuff, from fingerprinting for user taking to straight out malware being served in ads. It's a wild west (or web).
[0]: https://www.iab.com/guidelines/safeframe/
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...
I think this sounds more like some sort of fingerprinting attempt. It good to see that random access to these kind of resources fails due to new(er) browser controls. However, this does not mean that the fingerprinting actually failed. There is probably some way to determine if the request was denied automatically by the browser or manually by the user (e.g., time to get "response"), which is definitely something whi…
The script at https://cdn.js7k.com/ix/talon-1.0.37.js is an ad verification library developed by Verizon Media (formerly Oath), and it does, among other things,, fingerprinting for bot detection purposes (because they want to prevent ad fraud). It was served together with the actual ad media (so called "creative") into the safeframe.
This a relativity begin case. Iv'e seen much more terrible stuff, from fingerprinting for user taking to straight out malware being served in ads. It's a wild west (or web).
[0]: https://www.iab.com/guidelines/safeframe/
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well tape the microphone too. With thick soft tape.
Or open up your laptop and (carefully) destroy it. I can’t remember the last time I used the built-in mic on a laptop, much less the last time I bought a laptop with a mic that was actually worth using.
OK, I destroyed it (carefully). Now it won't boot. What do I do next?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those anti-fingerprinting tools should make you appear as the most common iPhone as much as possible.
What is the most common iPhone? Should the common iPhone browser experience be scaled up to a desktop resolution, or should the desktop browser limit itself to the common iPhone resolution? What about mobile Safari bugs or misfeatures, such as webRTC shortcomings, or CSS bugs, or viewport resizing/scaling/zoom bugs? There are so many possible variations that it seems like preventing fingerprinting by pretending you'r…
Atleast some (eg. lenovo), have physical shutters to cover the webcam lens, so even if the cam turns on, it records only a piece of black plastic.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curiously no explanation why this sort of malicious behavior is accepted by "Google Ad Manager" in the first place. If you haven't already installed: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
I'm not sure it is allowed; that's not a part of the business I know much about. Since ads can run arbitrary JS it's hard to enforce policy programmatically. On the other hand, it's not clear to me that whatever this advertiser is trying to do is having any real effect, aside from causing a console message that it is being blocked. Access to the mic and camera from cross-origin iframes is blocked by default, and you…
It's not that hard, at least not at my end. I just don't run ads.
Why on earth does goo think that running arbitrary JS on their visitors' computers is OK? I mean, I know this is the policy, and I assume the policy of other ad networks is at least as "liberal". So I'm sorry, chaps, but no ads run on this screen.
I wonder if this is a race to the bottom? I've noticed that TV ads these days are all for animal charities, equity release schemes, and incontinence pads. I don't know what they're running in web ads, but I'm pretty sure that the TV ads are so dire because everyone but old fogeys and poor people skip the ads. I'd assume the same old/poor people are the ones that have to see web ads.
Advertising to poor people has traditionally been a pretty bad pitch. So why isn't the online/TV ad industry crumbling? And how do I bet against their shares?