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How about this: we make a new tag <advertising></advertising> Inside this tag can only go text-link ads. Ads in any other form on the page will be ignored. But
by DanielBMarkham 11y ago
How about this: we make a new tag <advertising></advertising>
Inside this tag can only go text-link ads. Ads in any other form on the page will be ignored. But for ads with those tags, the text will be displayed at the top of the browser, in the premium location for users to see it.
This allows ads, reduces the impact of ads on visual clutter, eliminates delivery of malware via ads, and drastically decreases page weight and load time. In addition, by enforcing an arbitrary scarcity, advertisers will be forced to bid-up for one spot on the page instead of being lured into more and more complex advertising platforms that are unwieldy to operate and many times have dubious added value.
- a_imho 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit First for not rendering advertising tags. There is nothing inherent about advertising, a unique tag for it feels a bit arrogant.
- DanielBMarkham 11y agoYou misunderstood. The point wasn't to make an evil bit. If we're going to have the semantic web, isn't advertising an important part of any page layout. Good grief, we have header, footer, microtags, and god knows what else. Advertising is at least as semantically important as the rest of it. After all, that's all adblockers are trying to do anyway -- identify the semantic purpose of those hunks of code used for content sponsorship. This is semantically important even if nothing else changes in the deliver-render system.