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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @04:08PM (#12867481)
You're ignoring that the web server is configured on purpose to give these things away without asking for payment. If your friend is standing there in his house, and when you ask to borrow his stuff he says yes and hands it to you, that's a lot closer.

It's not just a lack of prevention. It's a purposeful, deliberate choice to send this content even if you're not paying or loading the ads.

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by ahartman00 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @06:27PM (#12868588)
"If your friend is standing there in his house, and when you ask to borrow his stuff he says yes and hands it to you, that's a lot closer"

Closer. Its more like if your friend says you can use his car, but you need to pay him $x per mile. So you use an odometer changing device to make it look like you didnt actually use it.

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by Dylan16807 on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:24AM (#12870566)
Nah. The sites are very deliberately not charging because they want more users. An analogy that involves a bill isn't appropriate.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by ahartman00 on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:52PM (#12874466)
True. But they can only afford to not charge because of the ads. I guess we will see how this plays out :)
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