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It has a few potentially legit applications: * Avoiding the privacy implications of ads without restricting access to content * Avoiding browser fingerprintin
by sigotirandolas 9y ago
It has a few potentially legit applications:
* Avoiding the privacy implications of ads without restricting access to content
* Avoiding browser fingerprinting through checking which ad-blocking lists are enabled
* (More arguable) Enforcing 'Acceptable ads' policies
* (More arguable) Enabling ad replacement programs such as Brave.
- jamiequint 9y ago> * Avoiding the privacy implications of ads without restricting access to content Guaranteed that something like this would also block ads that are "site served" (e.g. Facebook's ads) though. Pretty difficult to make a privacy argument there since you're tracked exactly the same way there by nature of using the site.
- sigotirandolas 9y agoI think that even for site served scripts, there's potential for ad-blockers to do good for your privacy, for example, if Facebook had a script that tracked the movements of your mouse through the page exclusively for advertising purposes and which was independent of the rest of the scripts of the page, then it could be blocked for a privacy gain. But then, for site served scripts, the provider could sufficiently "tangle" it with the rest of the scripts as to be inseparable, so it's a lost war in the end and your point still stands, I believe.