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Re:Ad Blocking: The Unnecessary Internet Apocalypse by cm2187 on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @09:05AM (#10264743)
You can. I can arrive on website with an http referrer that says I searched for "holidays in greece" on google. The website can do targetted ads and show me something about greece. What is not OK is that one hour earlier I was looking for details on a camera on a different website and to serve me an ad related to cameras. I don't mind the website I visit tracking me on their website and serving ads to me on thst basis. What I reject is cross-website tracking.

In other words "first party tracking" is OK, "third party tracking" is not.

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Re:Ad Blocking: The Unnecessary Internet Apocalypse by mbubb on Saturday September 26, 2015 @10:15AM (#10283145)
Sorry for the delayed response... I like the idea you present - just don't see how it would be implemented. Jotted some ideas. Need ot read and think more.

I am sure this has been on HN - no tsure where I first saw it. But this is a very interesting critique:

http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you....

my thoughts on your point:

https://gist.github.com/mbubb/dedfbf427848a8d8fd3b

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