Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ...
by derefr on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:11PM
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You assume everyone who writes an ad-blocker lives in the US, or a in country the US has coerced into joining WIPO. If an ad-blocked is written by a Chinese citizen, hosted in a Russian data-center, and attached to an Iranian domain name, what precisely is the US government going to do?
Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ...
by johncolanduoni on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:51PM
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Don't you remember when libdvdcss was so illegal you had to run a script (that Ubuntu shipped) to download it? The horror!
Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ...
by brianwawok on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:14PM
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Probably drop a MOAB on the datacenter.
An anti-ad-blocker ad would probably be easy to enforce: arrest the people making and distributing ad blockers.
However, I think the main threat is a repeal of requirements to label ads (which this technology relies on), not to ban ad-blockers outright. I bet that would cause less resistance. Quoth the OP:
> Perceptual ad-blocking, on the other hand, ignores those codes and those lists. Instead, it uses optical character recognition, design techniques, and container searches (the boxes that ads are commonly put in on a page) to detect words like "sponsored" or "close ad" that are required to appear on every ad, which is what allows it to detect and block Facebook ads.