Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/AdblockersKillfileProblem Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AdblockersKillfileProblem?atomcommentsDWiki2017-01-07T04:17:34ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/AdblockersKillfileProblem.By Sam on /blog/web/AdblockersKillfileProblemtag:CSpace:blog/web/AdblockersKillfileProblem:1e2b2277b59c1b06f91bc1265f475b7488f55fbdSam<div class="wikitext"><p>If Javascript and all the other Turing-complete nonsense was default-deny, the 'default' web experience would probably be quite pleasant. (Or every single website would be a 'Please enable Javascript to view this page.' placeholder plus five megabytes of inscrutable minified code, but we didn't see that at the apex of the Flash era, so I don't think we will now.)</p>
<p>I don't run an ad-blocker, but I <em>do</em> have uMatrix in a default-deny set-up, and it's actually rather pleasant and incidentally keeps out the bad adverts; there are philosophical objections to any advertising at all, but I can tolerate still images in my newspaper and I can also tolerate them in my web browser. (I do occasionally have to blacklist particularly obnoxious advertisers that don't understand the 'still' part, or that think that not-even-borderline pornography is okay, but the emphasis is very much on the 'occasionally'.)</p>
<p>But no browser will turn off Javascript by default: they all decided in 2004, with the WHATWG coup, that 'web applications' were the future and that there's no value in having a web that can be processed without solving the halting problem. I may be slightly bitter about this.</p>
</div>2017-01-07T04:17:34ZBy Xavier Combelle on /blog/web/AdblockersKillfileProblemtag:CSpace:blog/web/AdblockersKillfileProblem:c1b4ea7214eddd4b9e3a41616605901612c6f809Xavier Combelle<div class="wikitext"><p>The only easy way I see for ad adventure end for now is that firefox gather enough money by donation to no more depend on search engine revenue. The follow up is they start to block ads and everybody migrate to firefox.</p>
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