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The ad I see on the website is an ad from the Carbon Ad network. The ads are clearly targeted, which can only be done if I was tracked. Allowing ads on this s
by enzanki_ars 9y ago
The ad I see on the website is an ad from the Carbon Ad network. The ads are clearly targeted, which can only be done if I was tracked. Allowing ads on this site, with the G Suite ad I see right now, creates requests to servedby-buysellads [dot] com, then ad [dot] doubleclick [dot] net.
I personally have no problem seeing an ad for something on a page, as long as it is out of the way, which is the case with this website. The problem I have is the amount of tracking done by this ad. Now both Google and some other company I do not recognize knows that I visited this website.
While it seems that Carbon's ad code does not allow for running arbitrary javascript, but I have no idea, nor do I want to spend the time researching if Carbon's ads do have that capability. The last thing I want when I visit a website is a random bit of javascript running on the page. As we have already seen, companies have been abusing that capability by running cryptocurrency miners (which I have a serious objection to as that is a waste of my electricity and computer resources), plus it has been possible to exploit security vulnerabilities such as Spectre.