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on Tuesday February 09 2016, @07:05AM
from the blocked-from-reading-the-article-about-being-blocked dept.
from the blocked-from-reading-the-article-about-being-blocked dept.
Wired.com is has announced it will block access to ad-block users, who they say make up 20 percent of their traffic. Users can access Wired without ad blockers or subscribe for $1 per week. Wired joins Forbes in blocking access to ad-block users.
Previous coverage:
Forbes Asks Readers to Turn Off Ad Blockers, Then Immediately Serves Them Pop-under Malware
Forbes.com Says "Uncle," Unblocks AdBlock Plus Users
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by DonkeyChan on Tuesday February 09 2016, @10:44AM
I'd gladly support a site I frequent by letting their ads run. I even trust some of them.
But I don't trust the ad delivery network to root out malware. Nor do I trust them to handle any tracking data they garner from me responsibly.
Zero trust.
They've been the number one intrusion vector on ALL my clients machines, by a huge margin.
I also don't trust them to not sell my tracking info to a 3rd party regardless of what a TOS or cookie policy says. They're shady and it's extremely likely that wording in it will make it SEEM like they can't, but totally can.
So this will continue to be my stance on the subject of ad blocking until I hear of a company empirically testing all incoming ads on an array of virtual machines piped into a router designed to sniff out bad traffic.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by darnkitten on Tuesday February 09 2016, @05:37PM
They've been the number one intrusion vector on ALL my clients machines, by a huge margin.
Amen. After installing an effective adblocker, infections drop to near zero.
BTW-anyone know if Adblock has been developed for the Edge browser? I'm finally seeing people with Win10, and, although I am recommending alternative browsers, it would help if I could wall off ads on Edge as well.
(Score: 2) by danomac on Wednesday February 10 2016, @01:55AM
Microsoft's Edge browser doesn't even support extensions [microsoft.com] at this point. Microsoft is supposedly working on it for a later release, and Adblock Plus already has a page [adblockplus.org] saying check back later in anticipation of the extension support that will be enabled eventually. Only solution for W10 is to use another browser, even IE (which is present on Windows 10 machines) with Adblock Plus IE edition [adblockplus.org]. Only reason I know this is because very recently I've been looking to do a large-scale deployment for IE at work.