mikiem2
Moderator
neowin[.]net/news/facebook-will-bypass-ad-blockers-and-force-ads-on-users-out-of-principle
In an article based on a Wall St. Journal piece [WSJ is a pay site], Neowin reports that Facebook is going to make useless any & all attempts to bypass their ads &/or tracking, both for signed in users & visitors to their sites.
*Hopefully* the backlash will be strong enough that this doesn't become a trend.
mikiem2
Moderator
Along the same line (trend), have you noticed how this Giveaway of the Day site is also bypassing Ad Blockers now?? Grrrrr.
I *try* to be more forgiving of GOTD because I don't think they have piles of cash lying around, & need the ad revenue. ADP will work in Firefox, but you have to right-click the ad & select Block Image, & then I'm not sure that will work when a different ad is presented, and may not block any code. It also wouldn't block any code until you viewed the ad that 1st time, & by then it might be too late. The ADP Preferences have a checkbox to "Allow some non-intrusive advertising", but unchecking it makes no difference for me.
My BIG objection to ads is malvertising. The ad networks work a bit like a black market seller -- no questions asked, just hand over your money. So criminals happily buy ads. Why try to trick someone into visiting an infected site? Why worry about attracting just the victims you want?... the ad networks will sell them targeted exposure to just their preferred clientele. All the criminals have to do is bury their exploits &/or malware in the ad, and if things go according to plan, every time someone views a web page with that ad they're infected.
forbes[.]com/sites/kevinmurnane/2016/06/20/four-steps-you-can-take-to-protect-yourself-against-malvertising/#1f5bcac55c49
Now in the article above Kevin Murnane talks about ad blockers being controversial... The way that I look at it personally, is that the only ones that can make the ad networks clean up their act, are the site owners that use their services -- without web sites to display their ads those ad networks will go broke. And since the site owners are the ones hurt by ad blockers [because they mean less revenue from the ad networks], they're the ones with the incentive to stop this mess. So instead of pleading with visitors to turn off their ad blocker, they need to get off their duffs & make the ad networks do some screening, both of buyers & what they put in their ads.
Suze
Member
I *try* to be more forgiving of GOTD because I don't think they have piles of cash lying around, & need the ad revenue.
That's fair, and I will be too ;-)
Your point is well-taken about site owners requiring their ad network(s) to screen out malvertisers. Since that's an added expense, I bet that's not gonna happen too frequently, if at all . . .
mikiem2
Moderator
Since that's an added expense, I bet that's not gonna happen too frequently, if at all . . .
I think you're right. But that's also why GOTD is the only exception I make. If the site owners lose money because their visitors use ad blockers, and their pleading falls on deaf ears, they don't have too many choices. If they could put up a pay wall, and have enough people pay to view their content that they could stay in biz, I think most of them already would have.
jgf
Member
Well, I use AdBlock, NoScript, and, on Farcebook, FB Purity.
When I now use someone else' computer it's like driving down a US highway fifty years ago - you could not enjoy the scenery for all the advertising billboards lining the road. Enough people tired of that and the "Highway Beautification Act" was passed. Those billboards are gone. (At least on the highway the billboards didn't slow you down.)
If Farcebook blocks the ad blockers two things will happen - some people will leave in protest, and the developers of those ad blockers will just update them.
mikiem2
Moderator
If Farcebook blocks the ad blockers two things will happen - some people will leave in protest, and the developers of those ad blockers will just update them.
I've read that the folks behind ABP have stated that they'll bypass the bypass F/Book is going to use, & then F/Book said they'll bypass the bypass for the bypass, to which ADP replied... you get the idea ;) Could be interesting to watch as long as we're not collateral damage.
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