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Pros of ad-blocking... - ProxRocks - Feb. 16, 2009 05:05 PM
Really quite the "funny" read...
http://adblockplus.org/blog/anatomy-of-ads
ps - after reading it, you may perhaps think twice about allowing .js
RE: Pros of ad-blocking... - lnminente - Feb. 17, 2009 01:49 AM
I would add the word 'external' before '.js' for better comfort and less broken pages
RE: Pros of ad-blocking... - Graycode - Feb. 17, 2009 06:23 AM
Good article, thanks for posting that ProxRocks.
I agree with lnminente, it's the external scripts that are most desirable to block.
Though some may complain about lost revenue for sites, I like comment #44: "The better solution is for the web sites themselves to serve up the ads". I wish the norm was for sites to be accountable for all of their page content, including any Ads and/or tracker content referenced. If a site's own www server had to push out the 500K Flash ads there wouldn't be as many of those.
Trackers p*ss me off almost as much as spyware. If a web site can't parse its own web logs then they should send them to someone who can -- but sending my browser to open a TCP connection elsewhere for a 1x1 transparent image is just being a lazy Jerkball.
In recent years the browser developers began to realize some of the detriment of treating 3rd party cookies like any other. Some day there will hopefully be more focus on the treatment of other types of 3rd party content like scripts, flash, and iframe.
Good riddens to many generic 3rd party server's ability to track my activity all over the internet to build & sell profiles. They can eat their own cookies and clever scrpts.
RE: Pros of ad-blocking... - Siamesecat - Feb. 17, 2009 06:25 AM
Javascript is not so bad if you block Flash, the normal and Javascript ads, disable the use of spontaneous popups, the onunload and onbeforeunload commands, and have a connection-killer blocklist to keep out the really nasty sites.