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Firefox should integrate a tracker-blocker which blocks all ads which rely on executing Javascript as well as profiling-related 3rd-party code snippets, but lea
by qwertox 2y ago
Firefox should integrate a tracker-blocker which blocks all ads which rely on executing Javascript as well as profiling-related 3rd-party code snippets, but leaves ad images which are integrated into the page, served exclusively by the owner of the page, and are based on the content offered by the page. Like magazine ads.
Everything else is just agreeing with the advertising industry on their idea that profile-building is fine.
These advertisers nowadays think they have they are entitled to everything, and Firefox just helped them.
- alex_duf 2y agoBy this logic wikipedia wouldn't be able to load any image
- qwertox 2y agoThey could offer a deal to Toyota and tell them they're offering image-only ad space on all car-related pages. For example images with deals. Toyota would know from the referrer that the click came from Wikipedia. All the other images are hosted by Wikipedia themselves and are not ad-related, so I don't see where's the issue here.
- alex_duf 2y agoI'm just saying that the domain that hosts the page and the domain that hosts the image are often not the same. Wikipedia hosts the articles, wikimedia hosts the images. If a browser wants to be strict about what it loads, most of the web would appear broken. Maybe google could have the weight to force such change, but no way could mozilla impose such a strict rule.
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