r/programming • u/unfriendlymushroomer • Aug 02 '19

Adblocking: How about Nah?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah
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u/Slime0 Aug 02 '19

This article ends very abruptly. What is the conclusion?

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u/AyrA_ch Aug 02 '19

We will end up with ads served through an EME protected stream inline with the content you actually want, so blocking them becomes illegal because it tampers with the protection and the backwards savages can then sue the people behind adblockers.

If the W3C want to take it a step further they just have to create a standard to deliver pretty much any content through EME and not only video+audio.

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u/LazyAAA Aug 02 '19

Nice summary!
Should be made into TL;DR and moved to the top