Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal
Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 days agoBut 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 4 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 4 days ago
What’s the solution?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 days 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.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
You could probably set a cap on how many different fingerprinty attributes a script is allowed to grab before requesting permission from the user.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That is indeed the solution.
A technical solution won’t cut it. Here’s a very convoluted example: the <p> tag allows you to send the text “buy illegal drugs here” to kids!! Omg!!! What to do? Remove the <p> tag? Obviously not. You ban the practice.