Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets

Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by bigbugbag on Thursday November 03, 2016 @06:26AM (#12862734)

> The vast majority of users use software on default settings and never change anything. IIRC only like 30% of users bother to install adblocking, and while that increases, it's going to asymptote sooner or later.

The day firefox will stop relying on google's advertising money maybe it will feature a fully loaded ad block such as ublock origin by default and the situation will be much different. Up until now mozilla has not delivered on the putting the user first marketing gimmick.

Hopefully at some point in a not so distant future most browser will get out of the pandora's box and block ads and tracking out of the box.

Obviously, chrome will not come with a fully loaded adblock as google makes its huge piles of monies from being the biggest ad network.

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by Houshalter on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:53PM (#12867362)

That's never going to happen because all the browsers are funded by advertising. Except maybe Safari. As you say yourself, Mozilla makes their money by getting payed by Google to not do that. Unless user donations massively increase, they'd be committing suicide.

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