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No, because then we can build whitelist-based ad blockers (e.g. RequestPolicy, NoScript).
by sarciszewski 11y ago
No, because then we can build whitelist-based ad blockers (e.g. RequestPolicy, NoScript).
- kawera 11y agoThanks! Pardon my ignorance but what if the content url itself came encoded in the same manner?
- sarciszewski 11y agoThey would have to hack into the websites we already trust to serve as a proxy for their ads to bypass a strict whitelist.
- Sanddancer 11y agoThey'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.
- nailer 11y agoYou could have human friendly URLs for articles and use hashed URLs for image and video content.