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Re:Opera: Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster ... by usharf on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:31AM (#11259038)
Biggest problem with with ads is tracking (privacy). Performance is an issue, but I'm not surprised that opera is making it sound as that's really the problem. Privacy concerns are mentioned briefly. Mozilla aporoach to ad blocking is truly user/consumer oriented, not just a lame attempt to still control and revenu from the whitelisting market.
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Re:Opera: Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster ... by matthewmacleod on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:48AM (#11259140)
That might be the case, but I don't think it is. In my experience, people dislike adverts on the web because they are obtrusive, obnoxious, and slow. Tracking is fairly low down the list of complaints.
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Re:Opera: Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster ... by bobajeff on Thursday March 10, 2016 @09:49AM (#11259464)
Pretty sure uBlock Origin doesn't have a whitelisting service or anything. They just do what it is they are supposed to do.
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Re:Opera: Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster ... by CaptSpify on Thursday March 10, 2016 @03:46PM (#11262148)
> Biggest problem with with ads is tracking (privacy)

There are a lot of problems with ads. And if you ask 5 people what the biggest one is, your going to get 5 different answers. Rather than point out which one is the "biggest", we should point out which reason we are focusing on.

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Re:Opera: Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster ... by 0x0 on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:31AM (#11259737)
I'd say the biggest problem is malwertising
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