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Google and other ad businesses need to create "AMP for ads". Ads should allow only basic HTML elements without javascript. Figure out a way to track only what's

by butz 7y ago

Google and other ad businesses need to create "AMP for ads". Ads should allow only basic HTML elements without javascript. Figure out a way to track only what's really necessary, maybe even get allowed tracking level set by user in browser settings (an improved version of Do Not Track). That might be even used to check if user agrees to have cookies set. It should solve the annoying cookie banners issue too. Finally, let's add option for user to select "text only" mode for ads to keep additional downloaded data to minimum and maybe even make ads accessible. Update: And, of course, after a quick search I find that AMP for Ads is an actual product from Google https://amp.dev/about/ads/ https://amp.dev/about/ads/ Sorry for not researching before commenting.

zamadatix 7y ago
> Google and other ad businesses need to create "AMP for ads". Is that not what Google Ads is?
- luckylion 7y ago
  No, Google Adsense allows javascript so advertisers can fingerprint and track the user's browser. Occasionally, some advertiser will drop the charade and just set top.location="https://example.com/" https://example.com/" and, after too many user/publisher complaints and a few days, Google will manually block them.