Re:Wasmer 5.0
by flohofwoe on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @07:42AM
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> 1) Making canvas webapps with unblockable ads built-in
Which isn't any different from Javascript if you choose to embed the ads right into the Javascript code - but nobody does this because it doesn't make any sense.
In reality, a WASM app that displays ads would also need to serve the ad content over one of the existing ad-network mafias (serving ads any other way simply doesn't make any financial sense), and those HTTP requests initiated by a WASM blob (by calling out into JS - because that's the only way in browsers) will be blocked just as fine by existing ad-blockers.
...but I'm also not actually aware of any webpage that does this (trying to defeat ad-blockers via wasm), do you have any example?
Which isn't any different from Javascript if you choose to embed the ads right into the Javascript code - but nobody does this because it doesn't make any sense.
In reality, a WASM app that displays ads would also need to serve the ad content over one of the existing ad-network mafias (serving ads any other way simply doesn't make any financial sense), and those HTTP requests initiated by a WASM blob (by calling out into JS - because that's the only way in browsers) will be blocked just as fine by existing ad-blockers.
...but I'm also not actually aware of any webpage that does this (trying to defeat ad-blockers via wasm), do you have any example?