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eli on Sept 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What we break when we fix ad blocking

More like cat and mouse. The publishers are at an extreme technical disadvantage.

anonred on Sept 19, 2015 [–]

How so? It's extremely trivial to make an inline script that detects if the client is blocking ad network requests, then act accordingly. Possible actions range from blowing up the page to redirecting the user away.

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