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Advertisers will find a workaround and it will inevitably be much worse for the user. In the following talk, someone from the Google Chrome team describes how,
by cpeterso 10y ago
Advertisers will find a workaround and it will inevitably be much worse for the user. In the following talk, someone from the Google Chrome team describes how, when they tried to not autoplay videos on Android, video advertisers worked around the restriction by compiling video codecs to JavaScript and then rendering their video-like ads to an HTML canvas.
https://youtu.be/wQGa_6CRc9I?t=23m52s https://youtu.be/wQGa_6CRc9I?t=23m52s
- colejohnson66 10y agoThat's where NoScript comes in
- NoGravitas 10y agoOr blocking 3rd party scrips with uBlock.
- raverbashing 10y agoDon't ad networks charge for ad size as well? (or they should start charging for this - would cut on abuse) If your ad is > 50k then you're paying a fee per display, even if you're "pay per click"