It’s exciting to see every major media outlet covering this same important story on their mobile websites.pic.twitter.com/keXPRSLgpv
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I think it can be solved - instead of running their js in your page context, fetch it and run it in your own embedded, sandboxed js interpreter and block malicious functionality.
As a writer and journalist, even one who's built my site from scratch (on MT, and then WordPress), that's far above my ability. And if it was easy, wouldn't an ad network's techs be able to do it? I think header bidding may have some effect—but I don't understand how that works.
Absolutely. I'm commenting more from the standpoint of what ppl on my side (tech) could do/offer.
Ad networks don't want to do this tho unless/until the market forces them. They make huge revenue off scams/malvertising.
That's distressing. I certainly don't want that revenue, since earning a few cents but losing a reader is worth far less than having that person return again and again.
For you/the publisher of course that's the calculus. But for the ad network they're not worried about losing you, because they know you depend on them & their competitors are just as bad.
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