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> ...advertising is necessary for funding the open Web and keep it open for people who either can't afford tons of subscriptions or hate them for privacy reason
by otabdeveloper4 7y ago
> ...advertising is necessary for funding the open Web and keep it open for people who either can't afford tons of subscriptions or hate them for privacy reasons
That's a minor issue. The bigger issue is the fact that, if adblockers become truly popular, websites will go back to serving opaque binary blobs instead of HTML+CSS+JS.
Remember Flash and 'Flash pages' back in the day? That, except worse.
- yabadabadoes 7y agoI'm not sure that is worse. A vast majority of the primary source web has no in page ads as it is things like orgs talking about their own products. If I could reliably filter the entire ad funded web from my search results on the basis of their using a blobs/DRM feature, I'm not sure how often I would do a search on the derivative web.
- naringas 7y ago> websites will go back to serving opaque binary blobs instead of HTML+CSS+JS. they will just serve web assembly
- big_chungus 7y agoI don't think sites will bake ads into the blob. It's too much server-side hassle. The equivalent today is just serving the ads from your own domain, and precious few people do that. The other option is a binary blob making a network request to an ad server, which can be blocked.
- blep-arsh 7y agoI know people who are building this as a service. It renders this new adblocking API completely helpless. Since it's just a proxy with relatively low CPU load, it's feasible e.g. Cloudflare could also build something like this.