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What blockers/browsers should do is just tell scripts that they finished loading. Then sites would continue to work just fine. This kind of technique is gonna b
by MichaelGG 11y ago
What blockers/browsers should do is just tell scripts that they finished loading. Then sites would continue to work just fine. This kind of technique is gonna be needed to continue ad blocking once a lot of pages start trying to detect blockers and not display content.
- zodiakzz 11y agoThat would start a needless arms race, there are a million ways to detect if you're using an ad blocker.
- MichaelGG 11y agoUltimately winnable by the end user. It's DRM all over again. Worst case: An image recog system identifies and blanks out areas that are showing ads. (Or hell, a robot arm puts pieces of paper over the screen.) May as well start the arms race when we know who will finish it.
- ansgri 11y agore: a robot arm: websites will simply require to connect to a webcam showing you browsing the site to allow viewing. We'd better devise a way to painlessly charge users ¢0.1 per view.
- LeoNatan25 11y ago¢0.1 per clickbait.
- MichaelGG 11y agoTrue. I suppose they could also serve up an ad-captcha before serving the content.