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New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers
RetroGeek writes "Falk eSolutions AG is claiming it can detect and defeat pop-up and pop-under ad blockers. The best quote is that when they detect an ad blocker they will 'replace a pop-up or pop-under ad with what are called "floating" ads, or ads that appear as transparent images over Web-site content.' As far as I am concerned they can place as many transparent images as they want. He probably meant translucent. It should be easy to defeat the detection, after all visit a web site, the pop-up blocker detects a Javascript command, then doesn't run it. Replace this with: the pop-up blocker detects the Javascript command, runs it, then places the result into a bit-bucket. Any Mozilla devs here?" WebGangsta adds "While this may ignite another round of online advertising purchasing, this news doesn't affect anybody who uses a customized HOSTS file to stop the majority of ads from appearing anyway."
If the people who are working on this actually cared about offending people, they wouldn't be working in marketing.
True. A child does not exactly grow up dreaming about going into marketing - it kind of just happens to some of the weaker willed and morally challenged.
In order to go into marketing, one cannot be truly human. But it also goes to the fact that marketing is a career that one chooses once one has graduated college and realizes one has no other skills companies want.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Shut up and go gobble some Microsoft ads you worthless fucking teabagger.
Bah host files to block ads, Jebus your stuck in the 90's. All the Kewl CiDs are using hacked CSS sheets. Even Mozilla.org has example CSS sheets to kill ads mine even works on slashdo^h^h^h .. quick run they are on to us.
...are RUINING the internet. Remember when this used to be such a fun place to be? You could find unlimited pages with unlimited information, chat with friends, share images, code, files, whatever. Do research for projects, POST research that you've done yourself, anything you liked, and all without corporate interference. Now you can't Google without getting a metric fuckton of bad results placed by advertisers.
I guess a big Thank You should go out to all the greedy bastards that decided to Cash In on this wonderful piece of technology.