And so the cat and mouse game continues.
That being said, ultimately as long as the user has control over what runs on their computer, they have control. Period. Things like this are doomed to failure.
That being said, ultimately as long as the user has control over what runs on their computer, they have control. Period. Things like this are doomed to failure.
The site will probably die eventually but it seems like that is fair. What doesn't seem fair to me is leaching add supported content.
It's so silly. Their pages are static.
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Sure, you can embed ads in regular text, but if humans can detect it then maybe computers can, too. Of course, it might be harder to detect product placement. You should read the chapter about that in my upcoming book. It's only $9.99.
HN itself is one big advertising platform to promote Y Combinator Startups.
I wish to block a few things, and ads tend to fall under these categories. If ads did not fall under these categories, I wouldn't mind them:
-I wish to minimize my attack surface.
-I wish to minimize resource consumption.
-I wish to use my display to see the content I am focused on.
-I wish to not worry about distracting / annoying / being judged by others.
-I wish to not be tracked - preferably not by the site I am visiting, and definitely not by random third parties, and certainly not by random third parties in countries with questionable laws.
Unfortunately, most ads seem to fall under all of these categories.
This: http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/ will always be easier to do in the relatively constrained environment of the web.
Again, the cat and mouse game continues. And the ads cannot win while the user has control over their own computer.