Jul 25
I had an interesting experience when I happened to adblock a little TOO liberally on akamai.com content.
I quickly found out the sites that use akamai, as their images, and other items such as CSS and JavaScript was lost.
Sometimes it was kinda random what was coming from akamai, and what was coming from the server itself….. (united.com was one example).
July 25th, 2005 at 9:38 pm
I do think that if ad blocking becomes popular (through the mechanism used by the Adblock extension), ad urls will simply become indistinguishable from desired content urls. So, for the sake of current Adblock users, let
July 25th, 2005 at 11:42 pm
True enough. Ad sites are pretty easy to identify by name so far, but maybe there will come a day where we will need Bayesian algorithms to tell if a URL is an ad or not…
November 10th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
I was thinking about that too, in a post ( http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000230.html ).
I agree that obfuscation and DRM would be implemented to try and make ad-blocking harder if it were to become more popular. Going after users with legal means is also an alternative ;-)
April 13th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Legal means? “You didn’t download all my stupid content. I’m going to file a law suit!”