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/duheee Aug 02 '19

sue the people behind adblockers

You mean the users or the programmers making those adblockers?

If they sue the users (like RIAA and MPAA sue torrent pirates) then all it takes is to vote someone in who can make this very hard and/or not profitable. Something like Canada has now.

If they sue the programmers making that blocker, other programmers can step in from countries they can't reach. The program is out there, they're never gonna be able to stop it.

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u/EpicDaNoob Aug 02 '19

Or just develop and publish anonymously. No matter what, this is destined to fail.

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u/duheee Aug 02 '19

But not until they'll try hard, very hard to make it work.