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They're not Ads. They're malware distribution and tracking networks. It is unsafe to browse the web without blocking Ads. I would recommend everyone blocks them
by mike-cardwell 13y ago
They're not Ads. They're malware distribution and tracking networks. It is unsafe to browse the web without blocking Ads. I would recommend everyone blocks them, for their own security and privacy.
When websites start displaying Ads in a manner that doesn't allow cross site tracking, and in a way that doesn't create massive centralised points of failure for the web, I might start letting them onto my network.
- eli 13y agoDisallowing 3rd party cookies will end cross-site tracking. (In practice, opting out[1] will pretty much cover you too, but I understand why you might not trust it.) [1] http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
- mike-cardwell 13y agoDisallowing 3rd party cookies wont end cross-site tracking. They want to do it so they will find ways to do it. Even if they ignore all of the obvious and underhand methods like exploiting E-Tags and Cache headers, they can always just track clients across sites based on their IP address. Yes, that is not as accurate as using cookies, but it is accurate enough to make more money than they would make by not doing it.
- unnuun 13y agoYou're so rad, man. Major respect.