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And so the cat and mouse game begins. Users of Facebook are using the service free of charge(unless you're advertising or paying for something). I think if fb c
by atom_enger 10y ago
And so the cat and mouse game begins. Users of Facebook are using the service free of charge(unless you're advertising or paying for something). I think if fb can detect that a user is a paying customer they should disable ads but for the majority of users this isn't the case.
Couldn't one just add fb ad server dns entries to their host file as 127.0.0.1? What could facebook do in that case besides bring up ad servers on new domains?
Could we set up an ad blocking DNS service? (Again..another game of cat and mouse.)
In either case, you are playing a losing game on a ball court owned by Facebook. If you don't like the ads, don't use the service?
- detaro 10y agoWe'll see about the losing game... If the ads look different from "real" content they can be blocked. If they don't FTC and other local authorities go after them for not marking ads clearly.
- mrgoldenbrown 10y agoFrom the article: "On Tuesday, Facebook announced it had blended the HTML of its ads on the web into its content so they’d still appear to users with ad blocking software." It is not valid to assume ads will come from one host and content from another.
- Eric_WVGG 10y agoI was just wondering about that — does this only affect ads in Facebook, or does it affect those embeds strewn everywhere? I couldn't care less about what they do within their own garbage heap, but if this enables to their junk across the rest of the web, it's a problem.