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Unless the client is able to change/enforce the priority of the streams or block a stream altogether with a reset. Then it should still be possible to strip out

by cmpb 12y ago

Unless the client is able to change/enforce the priority of the streams or block a stream altogether with a reset. Then it should still be possible to strip out the ads through some Adblock-like mechanism. I see how this could potentially shift the ad-bearing responsibility to CDNs, but I'm not seeing how it's any more of a net neutrality issue than what we've got now. Could you propose a hypothetical scenario?

Animats 12y ago
Whoever owns the big single pipe gets to determine what goes into it first. A CDN can insure that preferred ads go in early, so they always appear before the content is fully loaded. Ads that don't go through the CDN may show up, eventually. There's also an encryption issue. The big pipe is one SSL/TLS session under a single key. Whoever owns the big pipe gets to see everything. Things like embedded Facebook content, normally encrypted with Facebook's keys, can't go through the big pipe unless they accept the CDN looking at their traffic. It's not clear how all this plays out, but it definitely implies more centralization.