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Advertisers Escalate Banner Ad War

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clockwork-orange dept.

AnonymousComrade writes: "In today's Newsbytes, there is an article about MediaBEAM GmbH, a German company that say they have developed Web server software that can detect whether a home browser is blocking banner ads or pop-ups. If the Web server detects blocking software, a message appears on the screen advising the 'free-loading' surfer that he has two choices if he wants access to the Web site's content: pay for it or be exposed to the ads. This sounds strange to me. Can they really include something in the download (Java or JS, I assume) that detects whether an ad picture has been downloaded or not? What if you have blocking S/W that not just blocks the download of the ad picture, but also modifies the HTML on-the-fly (a la the Proxomitron). Can they really distinguish this from a remote ad server that just isn't responding? And how long will it take before ad blocking S/W is updated to block this blocking-detection mechanism?"

6 of 448 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Sure it can be done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What about people browsing with images off... the blind, for example?

  2. Re:Your Sanity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ah, so we just have to accept everything in the name of commerce?

    If you don't watch it, your asshole will only be capable of really low basetones because you'll be raped so often by your precious commercialism.

  3. basetones (SP: bass tones) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Assholes like this are actually quite silent when farting.

  4. Tales from the Koran: How Mohammed met his end. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We shove Jimmy Dean® Homestyle Pork Sausage up Mohammed's ass. Then while the Giver strokes me off I shoot my wad in Mohammed's face, after which we force Mohammed to fellate an 800 pound Chester White. Simultaneously, two Hasidic rabbis open their kosher bowels, unleashing torrents of gefilte shit on Mohammed's head and back, while The Giver pumps Mohammed from behind. After the hog shoots its wad in Mohammed's mouth, The Giver shoots his load up Mohammed's rectum.

    Then, unexpectedly, the Chester White roots out Mohammed's penis and testicles, hungrily biting them off, gobbling them down with full porcine fury. We bury the newly castrated Mohammed up to his nose in pig manure. Two AIDS infected Bowery whores stuff their used condoms and clotted tampax down Mohammed's throat, and crack a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 over his skull. We then leave him for the hogs to munch on. Mohammed is swine feed, and by tomorrow, he will be swine manure.

  5. Is IT going up in bs smoke&mirrors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    we'll NEVER subject you to annoying jump-you pop-up ads at ScaredCity(?tm?)

    Plus, you could acquire this relevant URL from us, as a result of your interest in the brave gnu world of open/honest, dependable/secure, communications/commerce, &, your ability to follow simple directions.

    don't even try to tell US that you haven't seen these guys, now featuring pictures of the REAL .commIEs

  6. Code Red by Stenpas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Code Red would have been heralded as the "#1 Software Program" if it targeted x10.com instead of the whitehouse. WindowsXP will probably be riddled with bugs. Perfect opportunity to make a new worm.