Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users
by paulmd on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:14PM
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I'm just waiting for the day when websites are rendering themselves inside a DRM-protected container in an HTML5 page. That's where I see all of this inevitably heading.
DRM-protected media extensions are almost uniquely positioned for this. They're designed around the abilities to uniquely identify the user and resist tampering. The only thing that's missing right now is interactivity.
Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users
by krstck on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:55PM
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Ah yes, because who doesn't want to return to the days of AOL's "channels".
I think you're completely right, btw. After AOL, it only took a few years for websites to become rapidly Flash-based. It looks like we're going back to that again (not Flash, but same thing - black boxed).
Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users
by denzil_correa on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @11:36AM
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> No matter what they do it's entirely possible to trick their scripts into believing I'm displaying ads
I hope this is true. I still think Facebook can do much more devious things like having posts on your news feeds from friends which look like posts but are ads. Kind of like native advertising.
I think "they're welcome to try" is exactly the right response here. Nothing is "fair" or "unfair", at least not in a way that advertisers or ad blockers care about.
No matter what they do it's entirely possible to trick their scripts into believing I'm displaying ads, because they run not on facebook's servers but on my computer. Where I get the control.