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by sarciszewski 3916 days ago
No, because then we can build whitelist-based ad blockers (e.g. RequestPolicy, NoScript).
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Thanks! Pardon my ignorance but what if the content url itself came encoded in the same manner?
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.
You could have human friendly URLs for articles and use hashed URLs for image and video content.
They would have to hack into the websites we already trust to serve as a proxy for their ads to bypass a strict whitelist.