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Not sure how to accomplish it, but advertisements should be captured in a semantically distinct way in markup. I hate ads, but I'm not saying you can't have the
by karaterobot 5y ago
Not sure how to accomplish it, but advertisements should be captured in a semantically distinct way in markup. I hate ads, but I'm not saying you can't have them if you want, you just have to wrap them in the equivalent <advertisement>../</advertisement> tags, so that there is no question about what content contains an advertisement and what doesn't. That way, it's trivial for me to block them. The flip side of the coin is that my browser will tell you if I'm blocking ads, and you can decide if you want me as a viewer or not.
- teraflop 5y agoEven if you could come up with an "objective" definition of what counts as an advertisement, what incentive do site owners have to be honest about it? Likewise, why would I want my browser to tell the site that I'm blocking ads? This idea reminds me of the Evil Bit: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3514 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3514
- karaterobot 5y ago> Not sure how to accomplish it I am hoping that the same technology that transported me back in time and made me director of DARPA would help me solve those issues.