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sarciszewski
3916 days ago
No, because then we can build whitelist-based ad blockers (e.g. RequestPolicy, NoScript).
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kawera
3916 days ago
Thanks! Pardon my ignorance but what if the content url itself came encoded in the same manner?
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Sanddancer
3916 days ago
They'll lose some of their SEO juice because their URLs are no longer human-friendly. Hashing everything would be more costly than letting some people block ads.
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nailer
3915 days ago
You could have human friendly URLs for articles and use hashed URLs for image and video content.
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sarciszewski
3916 days ago
They would have to hack into the websites we already trust to serve as a proxy for their ads to bypass a strict whitelist.
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