Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures

Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday December 29, 2017 @02:19AM (#16028191)

Advertisers need to fuck off. Ads are never going to work on the web - the ad bubble needs to pop already! Advertising on the web is a horrifying web of fraud, psuedoscience, and invasive tracking and sensitive data hoarding. Frankly, it should have been outlawed by now.

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by raguuu on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:52AM (#16028800)

While everything that is going on with ads is horrible, it does work. This is very wrong side to hope for things get better. There is fraud but companies pay premium for ads because of it and in the end customers.

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by username223 on Friday December 29, 2017 @11:55AM (#16030367)

> the ad bubble needs to pop already!

I agree, but it will be ugly. These "ad" companies are really surveillance companies who can currently print money by selling ads. When the bubble pops, they'll still have all of their surveillance data, but will be forced to sell it in different and sleazier ways. Think credit reporting that is technically not "credit reporting," job applicant screening based on web histories, reporting on political dissidents, etc. FB/GOOG will get seriously evil as they collapse.

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by snarfy on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:19AM (#16028894)

I've been browsing the web since Mosaic and have never bought a product by clicking on an ad.

I may learn of a new product by seeing an ad, and in that sense it worked, but never by clicking on it.

The point being there is absolutely no reason for any ad to have javascript associated with it.

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