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by dylan604
750 days ago
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> how to detect an "ad" if it's served with the content fully sever-side? Now _that_ needs some serious ML to decipher. This has been my red line on where I will allow ads vs blocking them. If a site is hosting their own ads, that's acceptable to me. If they are using an ad provider, that is not. The newspaper example is my go to. If you wanted your ad in a paper, you called the paper and took out an ad. Today's equivalent would be every time you opened the paper, a slight delay while it randomly chose the highest bids for the ad space while potentially also inserting something that would slowly eat your hands. That's a nope. You are obviously in the camp that feels entitled to be able to read anything at anytime without allowing for a website to earn money by wanting to block all ads regardless of their origin. |
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Not at all. I use Brave and "shield down" websites that I like and generally keep their ad situation under control (incl. 3rd party). But your point of hosting vs 3rd party is a good one and especially because often one 3rd party connects to another.
Likewise, I "block" annoying parts of websites like Yahoo Fantasy Football's enormous top nav that's not even an ad.