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it's literally the only vector left for viruses to enter home systems, so no, not gonna unblock even once. sorry for your loss, some shit player are ruining it

it's literally the only vector left for viruses to enter home systems, so no, not gonna unblock even once. sorry for your loss, some shit player are ruining it for everyone else, but it's not the blockers. it's those that sell prime space to questionable publishers, they had a chance to clean themselves from within, but failed. every now and then a new effort comes up with 'clean ads' or 'micro tips' but it's too late, you need to wait the next generation of techies to start not recommending adblockers in ten-twenty years, and it'll only happen if the industry as whole cleans

mavhc 9y ago
So would you support (ie not block) an advertising company that followed some set of ethics? What would they be?
- jackvalentine 9y ago
  I genuinely think that ship has sailed past practicality.
- JetSpiegel 9y ago
  The concepts of "ethics" and "advertising" cannot be reconciled.
- LoSboccacc 9y ago
  wouldn't say "support" but would say I wouldn't mind ads that are a passive image link; you could still track the source by referrals/url without an active payload using less intrusive standards. the problem is twofold however: 1) I'm not managing my ad blocking list, that's too much of a task so I delegate it to list maintainers. list maintainers don't really want to have acceptable ads policies because at the first mishap they'd lose the hard earned trust completely. there was an attempt but they were white listing not just basic banners but active components, so thanks but no thanks. 2) as soon as you create a set of marchers/rules/something to allow certain ads trough, bad actors will try to exploit it, especially if the while policy does something like allowing scripts with the graphical payload. (also css can include fonts and fonts have been exploited multiple times, so there's also that - an acceptable ad is not something advertiser really like)

mavhc 9y ago

So would you support (ie not block) an advertising company that followed some set of ethics? What would they be?

jackvalentine 9y ago
I genuinely think that ship has sailed past practicality.
JetSpiegel 9y ago
The concepts of "ethics" and "advertising" cannot be reconciled.
LoSboccacc 9y ago
wouldn't say "support" but would say I wouldn't mind ads that are a passive image link; you could still track the source by referrals/url without an active payload using less intrusive standards. the problem is twofold however: 1) I'm not managing my ad blocking list, that's too much of a task so I delegate it to list maintainers. list maintainers don't really want to have acceptable ads policies because at the first mishap they'd lose the hard earned trust completely. there was an attempt but they were white listing not just basic banners but active components, so thanks but no thanks. 2) as soon as you create a set of marchers/rules/something to allow certain ads trough, bad actors will try to exploit it, especially if the while policy does something like allowing scripts with the graphical payload. (also css can include fonts and fonts have been exploited multiple times, so there's also that - an acceptable ad is not something advertiser really like)