4 ms·
It's kind of crazy how we've been playing cat-and-mouse games between ads and ad-blockers for over a decade and yet websites still serve ads from third party do
by swebs 8y ago
It's kind of crazy how we've been playing cat-and-mouse games between ads and ad-blockers for over a decade and yet websites still serve ads from third party domains. If they started serving ads from their own domain and randomized the IDs of elements, then they would be much harder to block.
- kees99 8y agoFacebook does exactly that. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt23cXZXgAEDdW4.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt23cXZXgAEDdW4.jpg
- dana321 8y agoThats extreme! I would have just made it an image with the text, from a random url.
- pillfill 8y agoWow. I automatically assumed that you could still circumvent the random div IDs by just matching against the text itself (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-filters https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...), but they even obfuscate that!
- Simon_says 8y agoClever. I circumvented it by not going to Facebook.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- Tsubasachan 8y agoNot enough people have ad blockers yet to change the industry I guess? The ability to track and monitor internet users is very powerful and lucrative. They won't give it up so easily.