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> Not sure Anti-ad-blocking laws are practically enforceable An anti-ad-blocker ad would probably be easy to enforce: arrest the people making and distributing
by Chaebixi 10y ago
> Not sure Anti-ad-blocking laws are practically enforceable
An anti-ad-blocker ad would probably be easy to enforce: arrest the people making and distributing ad blockers.
However, I think the main threat is a repeal of requirements to label ads (which this technology relies on), not to ban ad-blockers outright. I bet that would cause less resistance. Quoth the OP:
> Perceptual ad-blocking, on the other hand, ignores those codes and those lists. Instead, it uses optical character recognition, design techniques, and container searches (the boxes that ads are commonly put in on a page) to detect words like "sponsored" or "close ad" that are required to appear on every ad, which is what allows it to detect and block Facebook ads.
- derefr 10y agoYou assume everyone who writes an ad-blocker lives in the US, or a in country the US has coerced into joining WIPO. If an ad-blocked is written by a Chinese citizen, hosted in a Russian data-center, and attached to an Iranian domain name, what precisely is the US government going to do?
- brianwawok 10y agoProbably drop a MOAB on the datacenter.
- goodplay 10y agoThat would work for a country that can't defend itself or retaliate. I'm not sure that applies to any of the three mentioned.
- johncolanduoni 10y agoDon't you remember when libdvdcss was so illegal you had to run a script (that Ubuntu shipped) to download it? The horror!
- bigbugbag 10y agoArbitrarily seize the domain name.