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If ad networks ever go out of style, ad blockers will combine sentiment analysis with a brand recognizer. Any content that promotes Tide Fabric Softener too hea
by oconnore 11y ago
If ad networks ever go out of style, ad blockers will combine sentiment analysis with a brand recognizer. Any content that promotes Tide Fabric Softener too heavily/at all will get squashed.
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- rblatz 11y agoWho is to say that the ad won't be jibberish to the computer? With web fonts you can make the screen say anything to humans while presenting very different text to the machine.
- TheLoneWolfling 11y agoAnd then the ad-blocker starts examining the screen itself with OCR as opposed to just fonts. Again, the cat and mouse game continues. And the ads cannot win while the user has control over their own computer.
- hollerith 11y ago-- which is one reason I disabled web fonts (by setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false in about:config in Firefox).
- oconnore 11y agoYou didn't click on my link, did you?