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Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark?

posted by janrinok on Friday November 24 2017, @04:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the it-won't-go-away dept.

canopic jug writes:

Archivist David Rosenthal asks on his blog, Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark?.

He points out that there are four big problems with Web advertising as it currently exists: The bad guys love it, the readers hate it, the webmasters hate it too, and the advertisers find that it wastes money. He then goes into detail on each point and concludes that not only does everyone involved hate the system, but that it is causing actual harm to society.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by el_oscuro on Friday November 24 2017, @05:14AM (3 children)

    by el_oscuro (1711) on Friday November 24 2017, @05:14AM (#600938)

    If you visit a website, and that website allows scripts to be run from other domains, that is pretty much the definition of XSS. If you look at the ARS article https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/an-alarming-number-of-sites-employ-privacy-invading-session-replay-scripts/ [arstechnica.com] and https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfiltration-of-personal-data-by-session-replay-scripts/ [freedom-to-tinker.com]

    While these trackers aren't strictly advertising, the basic concept is the same. Another website running scripts on your browser. Those screenshots look a lot like BeEF https://beefproject.com [beefproject.com]

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 24 2017, @05:50AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday November 24 2017, @05:50AM (#600951) Homepage

    Noscript on Firefox always gives XSS blocks at the most inopportune moments, and always when you actually need that legitimate functionality.

    Have you visited Zerohedge without NoScript and Adblock? EEEEUUUUghghghhg. Hell, the only reason why I installed adblocking on my phone was because the Zerohedge ads were crashing my Firefox.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @03:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @03:25PM (#601056)

      That's why I stopped using NoScript. I'm shocked that anybody still uses it. There's better options out there like uMatrix that allows you more fine grained control over what does and doesn't run.

      NoScript itself is kind of a blunt instrument that was too much of a pain for my taste.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by crafoo on Friday November 24 2017, @06:57AM

    by crafoo (6639) on Friday November 24 2017, @06:57AM (#600975)

    Javascript was a mistake.