Ad Blocking Strategies
Discussions center on techniques for blocking web advertisements via browser extensions, JavaScript restrictions, and content filters, along with countermeasures by sites and advertisers to detect and evade blockers.
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Why don't you block all the JavaScript not coming from your origin and just display a simple link+PNG as advertising?
This can be blocked by any regular content blocker, no need for a specialized extension. Also, by discriminating against alternatives to advertising you are helping the advertising industry.
Just blocking JS does not work against ads. Ads track you using cookies which can be set upon the loading of any web resource including images.
They aren't blocking "ads". They are blocking a specific undesirable browser behavior that is being exploited by some ad networks. This is conceptually no different from blocking pop-ups.
They already block invalid SSL certificates and phishing/malware sites. Why not ads, too?
Ad blockers can block those, too. It's not just blocking calls to the Google ad engine; it's monitoring pages for (user defined and shared) ad divs.
That's basically the premise of https://adblockplus.org/ with their https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads isn't it?
Preventing ISPs and other bad actors from using it to deliver ads/malware?
Right. We need a blocker that loads the ads and "sandboxes" them from the user.
Not with current technology because all ad blocking does is blocking hosts. So a site can tell if parts of the code have loaded/executed or not. In order to go completely stealth you'd have to let the page load everything and then just don't show it. But that's way more complicated and besides a bit pointless because part of the reason for ad blocking is to make sites load faster by removing all that bloatware. That, or we move ad blocking out of the browser and into the OS w