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AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware
cylonlover writes "AdTrap is a new low-power, zero configuration device which promises to banish adverts from computers, tablets, and anything else connected to the local network. AdTrap's creators point out that their device works not only with full-sized PCs, but everything else connected to your home internet, such as Apple devices running iOS 6 – and without the need of third-party apps or jailbreaking. In addition to blocking web browser ads, AdTrap is also reported to remove ads from streaming devices like Apple TV and Google TV. A configurable 'whitelist' is offered too, so that users can allow adverts on websites of their choice."
This is why I place ads on the main page of my websites and you can only view content from the popups.
Already does this.. for free.. http://www.howtogeek.com/51477/how-to-remove-advertisements-with-pixelserv-on-dd-wrt/
Because these days ads are not served from the same source as the content. They used to be in the past and likely will again in the future if this sort of thing catches on.
Presumably even encrypted communication has to come from a url, which is how most adblockers identify ads.
The problem isnt advertising. The problem is F***ing obnoxious advertising! FLASHFLASHFLASH HEY THING ITS HEY THING! Or, adservers that lag and wont let the site load. And when they do load, see above. So many flash adds that they crash a browser, or make it unworkable. obnoxious, grating, irritating ads. Id happily unblock adds..Its just when I do, I get ALL THAT again. No matter how long its been. Its like its 2000 still.
It's an Android app that takes any input text and randomly capitalizes and bolds fragments, inserts random punctuation, and then adds large lists of /. internal links to the end.
I work for an IT contracting company, and my co-workers do not have Adblock of any type. They go around on the web, VIEWING ADS. I do not understand it, they know a lot about IT, yet do not sterilize their browsers? Who would do that willingly? One of them even uses IE, ON PURPOSE.
I do not think I will ever understand their logic as to why they do not use Adblock, which, when questioned, results in a shrug.
"as for my mobile devices I could simply blacklist IP addresses and domains at my own router and do everything this box claims to do already"
Now pull yourself out of the Slashdot groupthink and pretend you don't know the difference between a router and a modem (and don't care). This is a box you plug in and it gets rid of a lot of ads. No need to install stuff on every computer, no need to fiddle with black-thingies and I-pee addresses (these Internet people think of such such stupid names).
1. They understand that the web sites and services they want need money to operate, and that money comes from ads. When ads no longer pay the bills (because everyone uses some method to avoid them) those 'free' services will no longer exist. You know why newwpapers are dying - because they are losing their major source of revenue, ads. The same thing will happen with the web. How long do you think Google, for instance, would last without advertising revenue?
2. They don't have a pathological fear of ads
3. They may find some ads actually useful
I'll bet Ad Proxies will become common before they host the files locally... it will look like it's coming from the server you are getting the content from, but the server is just relaying the ad from their ad host.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
As a web developer that thought makes me physically ill...
I begrudge doing that with sites I set up myself and *trust* the content on, let alone random-ass third parties.
That way lies security nightmares.
There are three reasons why remote-hosting adverts (and user-generated content) on a seperate domain is a good thing:
1) Shares the bandwidth load between two servers
2) An extra seperation between Content and Application makes for simpler updates
3) Malicious Injected content can't pretend to be from my own domain and is sandboxed by modern browsers.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
1) Shares the bandwidth load between two servers
I just hope your layout does not depend on the ads them because those servers are going to be overloaded and dog slow, delaying the rendering of your page.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
but to dismiss the entire advertising industry is wrong
I dismissed the entire ad industry as soon as I got background popup videos that were playing sound, and an ad somewhere near the bottom of a long page that was also playing sound at the same time. At that point, it just became a battle of who could make me hate the internet more, so I decided to surrender and make a blanket statement of "I never want to see another ad again, lest I destroy my computer out of sheer rage".
It is not my fault that sound-based advertisements ruined the entire game for everyone.