Microsoft Research Paper Considers Serving Web-ads From Localhost

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:53AM from the call-is-coming-from-inside-the-house dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A paper from Microsoft researchers (PDF) posits the possibility of 'pushing' web ads to a user's own computer and serving them into pre-arranged containers on web pages, with the EFF or ACLU serving as privacy mediators between the user and the advertisers who want to engage them. However the framework — dubbed 'Privad' — would need to get installed on the user's system by the same familiar means which the likes of Superfish use. The report admits that Privad would probably need to be disseminated "through adware-style software bundling, shopping discounts, toolbars or other incentives."

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Re:Allow me to comment on the subject... by Nrrqshrr · 2015-06-11 05:30 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I just want more video game developpers to embrace Linux so that I can fully move away from M$.
I keep having to boot my Microshit partition to play the games I like and, ironically, am the only person in my entourage (other than my parents of course) who keeps using windows. I installed Linux on all my friends' laptops and they love it, though I think the whole being-geek-is-cool vibe is, in part, responsible for that.