![]() ![]() ![]() A couple of them are on my regular reading list, and I had no idea they were supposedly up to such chicanery it's not showing here. I visited several of the sites on the list the dev of uBlock Origin (and its companion addon to thwart this attack, called uBlock Extra) using Waterfox, and I didn't see any ads on any of them. Because now, it would be.Īgain, I think everyone wins here in the end, except the real scumbags. And publishers could no longer just shrug their shoulders and say, "not us guv". The advertisers might learn to piss their users off less too. And have to plug their networks through the publishers' systems - which would have the side effect of making everything more transparent - as they'd have to run their tracking code in cooperation with companies like El Reg. Obviously the Ad industry would have to change how it runs its networks. The result would be a more secure internet for users and publishers having to take responsibility for what turns up on our screens. So in an ideal world I'd just connect to the publishers' server - and then they'd deal with all the ad crap. It's you that I'm going to blame if malware gets onto my PC because your ad network served something horrible. I've complained to El Reg about misbehaving adverts, and their response has been, "sorry it's down to our ad network". On a tablet that's really annoying but on a phone with slower load times, when you're on the road and in a hurry, it's really, really, really, REALLY fucking annoying! Stop it!!!! As you wait for the action to stop, put down your finger to scroll and an advert magically appears right underneath your finger! Which on a PC is annoying, but on something with a touchscreen is incredibly fucking frustrating. Which mean the page starts bouncing around like a 4 year old on Sunny Delight. The page load times are long, because of the all the Java crapscript and ads popping up from slow third party servers. Try surfing most sites on a tablet now, and it's miserable. But if they're getting paid anyway, I guess we're all happy.īut the publishers need to take responsibility for their content. I just filter out those bits of the screen. Sadly for them I just don't see them anymore. Maybe even this attempt to get round ad blockers. I can see this war having some beneficial effects.
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