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> testing would be done at the browser plugin level to filter out any scripts and ads which don't meet the standard I think you are describing pretty much any
by xorcist 11y ago
> testing would be done at the browser plugin level to filter out any scripts and ads which don't meet the standard
I think you are describing pretty much any ad block plugin. If you serve ads from your own domain with an img tag, they don't be blocked. It's just that very few people do that.
- mattkevan 11y agoYeah, technically it wouldn't be all that different - but the user-facing side would. If a site met a particular level of privacy, the relevant badge would be displayed - sort of like a SSL padlock - as a reassurance that the site was trustworthy. Or a bit like, cheesy though they are, those valid HTML/CSS buttons. Ten years ago there was a big push for web standards, vaguely defined though some of them were, and from that it's now unthinkable to build a site which isn't standards-based. We need a similar push for tracking and advertising. Like the web standards movement, which wasn't led by browser makers or website owners, but by developers and designers who realised things couldn't continue, the ad-tech and publishing industries are not going to be able to do this themselves, but need pressure from outside.