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>uBlock icon skyrocketing. Some sites have 100s of fallback ads and trackers (usually just domains and subdomains), once tracker 1 failed to load, it tries to
by akerro 9y ago
>uBlock icon skyrocketing.
Some sites have 100s of fallback ads and trackers (usually just domains and subdomains), once tracker 1 failed to load, it tries to load 2 which is the same file on a server, but with different URL. They have literally 100s or 1000s of such fallback URLs.
- epicide 9y agoThis is why the internet won't get better until ads are cut out like a cancer. It is more profitable for them to keep adding layers of ads and trackers than it is to actually build something useful that people would be willing to pay for.
- janlaureys 9y agoPraise to everyone involved in managing blocking lists. <3
- nerdponx 9y agoI'm just grateful that they still serve ads over separate domains, instead of rigging up the ad tech on the server side and embedding tracking into the "functional" Javascript. I get more worried that once Wasm hits, the only way to tell if you're being tracked will be to monitor individual HTTP requests, which even then might become impossible if everything is sent to and from opaque CDN domains. I imagine the only thing currently standing between us and this nightmare is that people don't want to actually work with any tracking on the backend; easier to embed it in the front-end and let the vendor put whatever they want in the script and serve all the requests.
- dx034 9y agoOnly a matter of time until Cloudflare starts offering ads. They can embed them at the edge with no/minimal JS and links/image files of the host domain.