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Who 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 tex
by rblatz 11y ago
Who 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?