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Re:Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking by kardos on Friday March 04, 2016 @07:47AM (#11223388)
I doubt that. What I think we'll see is that the content producers will inline the ad-industry adverts & tracking code and send the tracking data back to them. Which amounts to routing the advertising machinery through the content producer's network rather than directly to the client. I don't see where the vetting process will be vastly improved or how it would lead to fewer trackers.
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Re:Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking by parenthephobia on Friday March 04, 2016 @09:13AM (#11223767)
You can't get a tracking code that tracks users across all the sites they visit unless the user gets their tracking from a single site.

The best thing the tracking industry _could_ have done is not pair it with stuff you don't want to view like adverts. If tracking was done via jquery hosted on a CDN, it's quite feasible we wouldn't even know it was happening.

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Re:Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking by shawabawa3 on Friday March 04, 2016 @09:23AM (#11223836)
> If tracking was done via jquery hosted on a CDN, it's quite feasible we wouldn't even know it was happening.

That almost certainly is being done, and we probably know about it.

Surely google track their cdns?

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Re:Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking by parenthephobia on Friday March 04, 2016 @09:54AM (#11224067)
If they do, they aren't using tracking cookies. I can't guarantee they aren't doing any sneaky browser fingerprinting (like panopticlick.eff.org) to track me, though.
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