Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 month agoA lot of those things are also required to render a webpage correctly.
Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 month agoA lot of those things are also required to render a webpage correctly.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
What’s the solution?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 month ago
I’m not sure a technical solution is feasible, other than dns-blocking these trackers. I suppose lawmakers need to spring into action to make this shit illegal.