What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?

Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? by stordoff on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:18AM (#16366880)

Is that not currently the case with ads, and addressed by blocking certain scripts/elements even if they originate from the same site?

I'd also suspect that it'll just lead to different ways of detecting miners (e.g. fingerprinting the behaviour of mining algorithms, or just blocking scripts that use more than a set CPU budget by default).

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Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? by seveibar on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:50PM (#16369106)

Detecting a similar script should prevent the proxying from working, but if the script is bundled into the main JS of the site (as many sites do now) it would be basically impossible to stop w/o blocking JS altogether.

Not sure if browsers can fingerprint script execution patterns, that's way further down than I go.

Script blocking will probably work most of the time, just as blocking certain urls gets rid of most ads.

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