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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by enterprize4 on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:50PM (#9742286)
The whole fight about adblocking won't be solved in the court, but with a technical arms race. In the end startups like this one will probably win, just because there is a real, monetary gain for them. And then visitors of the sites using technology like this will have to choose: Either don't see ads, but also no (or not as much) content or content, but with ads or a payment. In my opinion this will lead to a better "contract" between users and the site, where everyones cards are on the table.
Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by rhizome on Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:30PM (#9742408)
The counter for this of course is snake-oil. Look at the history of facial recognition, which has never worked in any environment outside of tiny-sampleset applications and yet is an almost-$3B/year industry.

http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/facial-recogn...

"Monetary gain" can be realized in more forms than those implied by the perfect accomplishment of a goal, of "winning," which adblock-blocking most surely will not, just as adblocking will never be perfect.

Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by zem on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:44PM (#9746808)
it might also lead to people skipping those sites altogether, which is what triggered the whole ad-supported-web madness in the first place.
Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by bashinator on Friday June 19, 2015 @08:18PM (#9748424)
I do this on principle, especially with mobile where ad-blocking is less available. If a page is especially egregious (full page ads, poor loading, etc), I will just close the entire tab ASAP. There's very little I need to read that badly, and hopefully it will show up in some tracking metrics.