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Ars Technica shows an "ad" to people using ad-blockers. I'm not sure of all the details, but they have the ad image binary inlined in the HTML, which makes it m
by smackfu 13y ago
Ars Technica shows an "ad" to people using ad-blockers. I'm not sure of all the details, but they have the ad image binary inlined in the HTML, which makes it much harder to block.
- dublinben 13y agoIt's actually very clever. They're using a base64 encoded PNG to display an 'ad' that doesn't actually smell like an ad. It would be pretty easy to just kill this element without impacting the rest of the content, but that's a crude tool.
- smackfu 13y agoYeah, they clearly aren't trying that hard because it can still be trivially blocked by Adblock after right-clicking. If they randomized the URL, it would be trickier.
- dingaling 13y agoFirefox has had a request open since 2006 regarding the blocking of data:image elements; not just for ad blocking but also for general image-free browsing. Still no progress after seven years https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331257 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331257