Re: Adblocker that downloads ads?

de me 04/17/2006 03:19

Mark Carter <me@privacy.net> wrote in
news:444379db$0$15789$14726298@news.sunsite.dk:

> Ulrich Neumann wrote:
>
>> It seems that a growing number of websites check whether
>> the ads have actually been downloaded and then grant/deny
>> access to the requested page, e.g.
>> http://runob.seclan.be/.
>
> Sigh. I can only see this escalating further if it really
> does catch on. Someone will then invent something that will
> actually download the ad, but then discard it.
>
> If Google were to drop such sites from their results, then
> it may also bring about an attitudinal adjustment.
>
> It brings me back to my post I made some time ago: we
> should be grateful to Bill Gates and his Internet Explorer.
> Whilst the vast majority are being served up great big
> piles of spadvertising, it leaves the rest of us to quietly
> go about our business.
>

Do you really expect google "kill" self? From that page:
[ quot ]
google_ad_client = "...nuked...";
[ /quot ]

Options, IMHO
1. Defense against this crap: disable JavaScript.
2. Go elsewhere (don't visit such pages).

J
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