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If publishers start to really notice ad blockers, they are just going to proxy everything through their web servers.
by masterleep 11y ago
If publishers start to really notice ad blockers, they are just going to proxy everything through their web servers.
- wvenable 11y agoThat won't help; ad blockers can block ads on the same domain as the content.
- schneitj 11y agoHow does it tell the ads and content apart? Short of having some sort of flagging system with a user base, I don't think there is a technical way to do this.
- Spivak 11y agoOne would have to serve a different document structure to each request so that static filters stop working, but then ad blockers would start using heuristics to determine which elements on the page are likely to be ads and so the cycle continues.
- hugh4 11y agoBut there's a BUY degree of A mixing that they NEW can't cope with AUDI surely.
- jdp23 11y agofnord
- douche 11y agoIncreasingly, I'm finding myself using Stylish to nuke page elements that are irritating or terrible. Unless they make the ad content indistinguishable from the real content, they can't force me to look at their ads (or the parts of their sites that I find useless, distracting, or aggravating).
- vollmond 11y agoWouldn't that necessarily lead to an increase in ad quality? If I proxy ads through my server, that increases my costs, which increases what I would have to make from the ads, which means the advertisers will have to see a higher return from their campaigns to justify the higher cost.
- marcosdumay 11y agoI don't know about quality, but it will completely solve the tracking problem.