Re:Welcome to the Block Party: The internet after ad blocking
by cpeterso on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @04:13AM
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Microsoft announced earlier this year an IE feature called "SmartScreen Filter" that is supposed to detect and block misleading or malicious ads. I assume Edge has this feature, too, but from the blog post (and your experience) it sounds like it is disabled by default.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2015/04/28/cleaning-...
Re:Welcome to the Block Party: The internet after ad blocking
by MertsA on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @04:10AM
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That little triangle looking logo in the to right is the AdChoices logo, Google has that on everything going through AdSense but just because AdSense -> AdChoices does not mean that AdChoices -> AdSense. That advertisement is actually an AdSense ad in this case but not everything you see with that logo is AdSense.
http://i.imgur.com/dzwaKhI.png
Saw that ad for what is borderline malware on a fresh install of windows 10 while trying out Microsoft Edge to see what it's worth as a browser. It's a google ad (you can always spot them through the X button), on a popular website.
As long as google doesn't do any real policing on what is permissible in their adnetworks, it will always be a user's right to protect himself. Television and newspapers have higher standards for ads, at least in my country.
This was also a reminder that Edge will not be a real browser until Microsoft adds the possibility of using an adblocker. No extensions, no deal.