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Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette (pressgazette.co.uk)
submitted 1 week ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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They call it "dark traffic" - ads that are not seen by tech-savvy users who have excellent ad blockers.

Not surprised that its growing. The web is unusable without an ad blocker and its only getting worse, and will continue to get worse every month.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And this is exactly why Google did away with Manifest v2 (what uBlock runs on) and why they wanted to introduce their “web integrity” standard. At that point the pages would be signed with ads and in the signature didn’t match the page wouldn’t even be shown.

They tried to play it off as “ensuring that you truly get the correct copy of the page and no bad hackers have intercepted it” but really it would have 100% forced ads.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Then I guess I'm not looking at those pages. No skin off my nose. That said, Firefox with Ublock Origin plus a couple of other ad-blockers seems to be working pretty well for me. Anything with a paywall, I just move on.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Then I guess I'm not looking at those pages. No skin of my nose.

That works until every website starts doing it.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

:shrug: So be it.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. I'll go back to browsing the web with Lynx before I accept ads. If it breaks, it breaks...

[–] Arcka@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago

Gladly go back to every site having an animated 'under construction' gif.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

I use Mullvad's VPN and DNS on a router level. Every device on my network is blanketed by it. Some services don't work, but I am willing to sacrifice their profits for my integrity. Thus, to them I say 然らば fuckmothers.

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To think that Google once had ads that I considered OK, just a bunch of text and links. How times have changed...

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Advertisers will always keep pushing things trying to find the limit where people will just barely tolerate it. Then when they push it too far they cry "no fair!" When people stop putting up with it.