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Lotta green handles fibbing about us here. We don't do third party ads. We block third party tracking which takes out third party and most first party ads. We
by BrendanEich 7y ago
Lotta green handles fibbing about us here.
We don't do third party ads. We block third party tracking which takes out third party and most first party ads. We also block fingerprinting, cryptomining, and other threats.
- input_sh 7y ago> We don't do third party ads. Are the ads hosted by the websites your users visit? If not, they're third-party ads, with you being that third party. > Lotta green handles fibbing about us here. Oh don't worry, I'd make the exact same comment from my other (non-green, thousands of karma) profile, I just like to occasionally switch aliases.
- BrendanEich 7y agoThe contract-based party numbering, first and third remain in common vocabulary, does not distinguish the browser or user as zeroth party. Putting tags on a page that cause tracking ads to run from unrelated businesses and their servers is the only useful “third party ad” definition here. Browser-based ads that use anonymity tech are a different category. If you insist on a reductionistic definition that rules out anything other than a static ad on the same site as the publisher, you will get stuck trying to improve the Web and how it is funded. I understand objecting to all ads other than static images that click through into same origin forms, or whatever, but that won’t pay the bills for most publishers.