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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by wang_li on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @11:41AM (#12255344)
They can just not send you the actual content until you've downloaded the advertising content of the page.

And in HTTP/2.0 they'll just switch to pushing the ads out to you.

In either case they can't guarantee it'll get on the screen, but they assuredly can make sure you download the damned ads.

Long term browsers will become more and more closed, DRMed, protected and such so that people have much less control over how stuff is displayed on screen.

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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by initram on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:59PM (#12257660)
And as that happens they'll lose users who have become accustomed to the conveniences of ad blocking and open web pages.
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Re:Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users by type0 on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:12AM (#12259465)
I'm also pessimistic about where it's going. As if the segregation on the web isn't bad enough already. We might end up with two kind of webs- one independent and open, another capitalized and closed. Just the fact that indieweb.org needs to exist tells us what's waiting.

Tim Berners Lee would cry if we end up with 2 webs.

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