Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal
Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 days agoBut why unusable, why does a browser have to leak language, window size, time, extensions? Can’t those be spoofed?
Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal
Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 days agoBut why unusable, why does a browser have to leak language, window size, time, extensions? Can’t those be spoofed?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days ago
A lot of those things are also required to render a webpage correctly.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 days ago
But isn’t most of that client-side processing? Can’t I request a vanilla generic page and once it is in my browser to process it to shape it into the window size and extensions I want? Even if it is an adblocker: serve me the ad, I’ll block it internally. But I suppose that for dynamic pages with js requests this would become hard to do.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days ago
Yeah it’s Javascript that’s the issue that can just take all this data in the client and send it wherever. And that’s exactly what’s happening.
EchoSnail@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
What’s the solution?