uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address • Hacker News Board

Re: uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address

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Post by pas » Wed, Oct 09, 2024, 11:12 AM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #101

pas wrote: post #43

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cost and effectiveness. selling ad space was always a lot of work. algorithms do it cheaper and in general better. next step is just to run a GoogleAds lib/proxy...

Until the algorith associates you with an ad for something negative to your audience. Scams for example are common for algorithms to allow while a human can validate some legitimentch

The opportunity cost of lost sales due to unwanted associations is a drop in the bucked compared to the cost of having humans in the loop. And when the most of the market moves to a low-cost regime eventually almost everyone has to because being a holdout now means you can't even find enough other counterparties (to sell your ad space to, or to buy ad space from).

Re: uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address

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Post by Pxtl » Wed, Oct 09, 2024, 3:28 PM UTC

shiroiushi wrote: post #110

Pxtl wrote: post #79

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i hope that this results in sites that host malicious ads and use wildcard session-cookies get hacked to all hell by their ads.

I would hope that this results in websites hosting malicious ads which harm users, which then results in a big lawsuit against these websites with a huge payout for the harmed users. After all, if the malware ad is being effectively hosted by the site, then the site should be legally responsible.

The upside is that it would only really impact their interaction with that specific site, not with anything else (unless there's opportunity for lateral moves because of SSO or the site hosts email and so they could hack password resets or something).

My dream scenario would be this happening to an in-company administrative user with the keys to the kingdom. Imagine an ad-ridden site like Fandom.com getting hacked in that way.

Re: uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address

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Post by remram » Wed, Oct 09, 2024, 9:43 PM UTC

EasyMark wrote: post #121

ants_everywhere wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That may change since Mozilla is becoming an ad company

They are not, but they are adding in support for more anonymous ads as they see it as a “compromise”, I don’t but I also don’t think they are as malevolent as a lot of people on HN and Reddit like to make them out to be.

A "compromise" between a usable non-ad-company product and what?