Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by cameronbrown on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:28PM
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> Something I've been thinking about is sending a header to websites informing them I'm going to block their ads so they decide not to send me the content if they don't want to. I feel no entitlement to their content as they should not feel any entitlement to what code gets to run on my machine once it reaches me. I might expand on this in a blog post some time soon but it's probably closer to an art project than something actually viable.
An advantage of this is we'd skip the whole ad blocker and anti ad blocker charade and gain a metric ton of performance back.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by cyborgx7 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:15AM
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>I remember our last discussion!
I'm impressed. I don't think I ever remember individual usernames.
>Something I've been thinking about is sending a header to websites informing them I'm going to block their ads so they decide not to send me the content if they don't want to.
I've actually played with similar ideas in the past (my more moderate days). But my philosophy at this point is that they can choose to give me the data or not give me the data. And I'm free to do with it as I please as long as I don't distribute it without permission. And I'm even softening up on that limitation.
With regards to Ads I don't take as much a hard line approach as yourself (I remember our last discussion!). I'm very pro ad blocker use but not to go as far as banning them in any way.
Something I've been thinking about is sending a header to websites informing them I'm going to block their ads so they decide not to send me the content if they don't want to. I feel no entitlement to their content as they should not feel any entitlement to what code gets to run on my machine once it reaches me. I might expand on this in a blog post some time soon but it's probably closer to an art project than something actually viable.