AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse

Re:AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Pr... by dispose13432 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:26PM (#13225351)

>The creators of the content allow anyone to view it, regardless of whether they run an ad blocker or not. Sometimes, they place alternative content where the ads would be, requesting that I disable my ad blocker, or like them on facebook as an alternative.

So would you suggest (or would you even use) AdBlockers identify themselves to the website (so I can write "if($_SERVER["AdBlocker]){echo "Sorry, see ads or leave}"?

Because there are adblock blockers, and people write _adblock-blocker-blockers_.

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Re:AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Pr... by sintaxi on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:24AM (#13227616)

No need. Every web request implicitly has that header set already. Its completely within the content providers power to deny me content with that understood.

When you buy a magazine from Starbucks do you tell the clerk what part of the magazine you intend to read what what you intend to ignore? Of course not, that would be ridiculous. The clerk & publishers are well aware I may ignore or even rip out any or all of the magazine pages and the magazine is priced accordingly.

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Re:AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Pr... by imagist on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:55AM (#13229073)

There are already websites that detect my ad blocker and request that I turn on ads or leave, usually in condescending language, but I do leave.

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