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Sad truth is: all these "privacy" plugins break ads. Many people install them for that purpose alone and use privacy as excuse. Even if a website provide local
by Schlaefer 13y ago
Sad truth is: all these "privacy" plugins break ads. Many people install them for that purpose alone and use privacy as excuse. Even if a website provide local ads because it values the privacy of its users: those are blocked too.
From a website owner's perspective privacy plugins are ad-blockers.
- jarofgreen 13y agoThey only break ads if ads are big JS things that have privacy implications - most ads are, but they don't have to be. I run a website that has one sponsor and their ads aren't blocked by privacy tools - because it's just some static HTML text, link and an image on the page. So I'm not sure what "local ads" you are referring to. (In much the same way, I don't see a whole bunch of ads because I use a Flashblocker ... but ads don't have to be flash) > From a website owner's perspective privacy plugins are ad-blockers. If that's how a website owner thinks, then I'd say they have a very narrow idea of what an ad can be.
- Schlaefer 13y agoSmall businesses don't reinvent ads or analytics, they rotate banners and that's it. They also don't implement their own software but use third party tools/plugins to manage their ads. Ghosterly and Co blocks those common third party solutions even when run locally. E.g. from the Ghostery source: "type":"analytics", … "pattern":"\\/piwik\\.(js|php)", or "type":"ad", … "pattern":"\\/adpeeps\\.php",
- sdfjkl 13y agoYou make it sound like there was something wrong with choosing which content you view.