Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ...
by rsync on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @11:04AM
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"What will happen to the web when uBlock Origin becomes prevelent enough?"
We already know the answer to this because we saw it in the days of the early web: advertisements on web pages will be pictures and/or text served from the exact same FQDN as the website itself.
The problem has never been how to serve ads - it's trivially easy to insert an <img src> and perhaps size it randomly, etc. Or you can just put in a text block.
The hard part is the ad networks and the user tracking and the analytics. These are the parts that are difficult to self-host or self-provide. Their absence will cause ads to be relatively less valuable and less user-hostile.
We already know the answer to this because we saw it in the days of the early web: advertisements on web pages will be pictures and/or text served from the exact same FQDN as the website itself.
The problem has never been how to serve ads - it's trivially easy to insert an <img src> and perhaps size it randomly, etc. Or you can just put in a text block.
The hard part is the ad networks and the user tracking and the analytics. These are the parts that are difficult to self-host or self-provide. Their absence will cause ads to be relatively less valuable and less user-hostile.