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> the day they sabotage ad blockers Quite a few sites do this today. The most notable being facebook with their 100+ div way of writing "Sponsored". I don't s
by no_time 5y ago
> the day they sabotage ad blockers
Quite a few sites do this today. The most notable being facebook with their 100+ div way of writing "Sponsored".
I don't see why google couldn't instruct site owners to self host doubleclick and apply some dynamic obfuscation for each visitor today. Surely not a law thing.
- krono 5y agoTheir upcoming outphasing of extension manifest 2 goes somewhat further than that. With this, they will also remove one of the primary APIs these content blockers require to function. I was wrong to assume everyone knew of this, and should have included a proper reference. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extension-manifest-v3-may-break-ublock-origin-content-blocker/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extens...
- no_time 5y agoI am perfectly aware of the manifest V3 controversy, I just use FF on both phone and desktop. Meddling with the way doubleclick and google-analytics gets deployed on the web would effect all browsers.