Not me. Since they implemented adblocker blocking, I just used UBO's dynamic blocking UI to block all inline and first-party js on their site too. :-)https://twitter.com/RonDeibert/status/978000590339940352 …
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Replying to @RichFelker
If they've succeeded in stopping most people from doing it, they've won. It's important to have uBlock Origin work out-of-the-box or people won't use it in large numbers. Sites could ramp up the difficulty much more than they're currently doing if advertisers weren't clueless.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS @RichFelker
Hopefully, they figure out better business models rather than doubling down on this. It wouldn't be very good if it just escalated to including the third party advertising / tracking as part of their first-party content / servers.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS
I don't think adtech companies will ever trust them to integrate it first-party, because then the publisher can just forge all the traffic they want and get paid for it.
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Replying to @RichFelker @CopperheadOS
Adtech relies on direct interaction between the site visitor and their servers as "proof of actual visitor".
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Replying to @CopperheadOS @RichFelker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages … and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Instant_Articles … are early examples of that. There are plenty of companies willing to take it way further than this.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS @RichFelker
Can see a future where Google, Facebook and sketchier companies host everything for them without alternatives and add the advertising on their behalf in a way that's hard to tell apart. It seems clear that newspapers, etc. really don't have any backbone and would accept this.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS @RichFelker
There are a lot of sites doing weird stuff like rendering all their content to a canvas today, simply because they love using bloated JavaScript frameworks. It sets a precedent for doing something like sending all the drawing instructions and just directly rendering to a canvas.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS
This is why Google needs to be trust-busted. Search engine independence is the primary mitigation: if you do that crap, you don't get indexed.
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Ideal busting of Google would break off search/indexing as an independent nonprofit entity, require Google to fund it, guarantee equal access to index data.
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