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You know, I don't mind Google search ads or even static display ads (ie BuySellAds). And even FB's somewhat annoying and usually poorly targeted display ads don
by jamiesonbecker 10y ago
You know, I don't mind Google search ads or even static display ads (ie BuySellAds). And even FB's somewhat annoying and usually poorly targeted display ads don't bother me too much, since they don't slow me down and (very) occasionally actually show me something of interest.
I draw the line with potential attack vectors/XSS injections, interstitials, youtube video ads, ads that keep me or slow me down from accessing content, auto-starting video, ad-block blocking interstitials, etc.
I can't imagine that I'm in a tiny minority, so why isn't there a uBlock list that only blocks the worst ads? (no, I'm not talking about ABP here.. but an actual privacy-aware ad list.)
- nix0n 10y agoFor a while, the easiest way to do this was Flashblock... then JS and HTML5 caught up to Flash's anti-feature-set. There are some ideas here, along the content-type-blocking route: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131329