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In a brazen attack on privacy, intrusive javascript tracks mouse movement, behaviour etc. and can detect if it's a human that does the clicking or your ad block
by UweSchmidt 10y ago
In a brazen attack on privacy, intrusive javascript tracks mouse movement, behaviour etc. and can detect if it's a human that does the clicking or your ad blocker/clicker. Next up might be eye tracking through the webcam, do you want an BS-armsrace with the ad industry or can we just block all that nonsense?
If you sell shoes, put up some shoe ads with an affiliate link, shouldn't that work good enough? You'd save millions by not being susceptible to attacks like the one in the article.
- rbanffy 10y agoA VM running the an OS, a browser with some software identifying the interesting banners and clicking on the while they move the mouse and scroll the window in human-like ways. Imagine now a beefy box with a couple hundred VMs running on it. Now imagine fake cameras catching a rendered environment and tracking virtual eyes that move according to what the camera would expect. If you want ad networks that rely on cameras to detect your presence capturing your image, imagine installing a fake camera driver on your PC that shows a rendered person in a rendered environment doing random browsing. edit: last part was unclear
- finid 10y agoYour imagination, my friend, scares me.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoYes, I'm thrilled about running all that compute on my hardware. Contrary to what many people in adtech and web development seem to believe, electricity isn't free. Not to mention such silly concerns as worldwide resource usage and climate change. Basically, that's why advertising needs to be reigned in hard, squeezed with regulations until it starts to behave. Because it's a zero-sum game on enough fronts to make everyones' lives worse if it's not fought against hard.