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They are. Disguised as "reader mode". Microsoft tried to enable "do not track" by default and the whole advertising industry went nuts. That's why everyone is
by gcb0 10y ago
They are.
Disguised as "reader mode".
Microsoft tried to enable "do not track" by default and the whole advertising industry went nuts. That's why everyone is afraid now. Apple started to move slowly on it by enabling ad blockers on IOS to even exist. Google have too much skin in the game, but they are not afraid of hurting their competition, they implemented flash and video ad blocker in recent chrome (and chromium, where they also rein) everywhere but not on youtube! (the blocker is not as obvious as to trigger when url != youtube, but they crafted the rules that it just so fit youtube one.
anyway, everyone is moving slowly, because microsoft was clever and fast to make a calculated mistake that show what will happen to anyone that tries.
- kapep 10y ago"Microsoft tried to enable "do not track" by default and the whole advertising industry went nuts." Did they? I thought the advertising industry didn't care about this feature or it's default setting at all, since they just ignore it anyway. It was privacy-conscious people who didn't like the activated-by-default setting. Because in the rare case some service actually did respect that feature, they most likely would choose to ignore it for all IE users, because in most cases it wasn't the users active choice.
- gcb0 10y agoyeah. pretty much every ad nerwork blatantly ignores it nowadays. They rushed to disable it when microsoft pulled that. enable it and visit amazon. See if their network will or will not show you tons of ads of what you just saw there.