AdBlock Only kind of Blocks Ads
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net

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Today I was toying around with netstat to see what incoming connections I had
to my Linux box and noticed that for the pages you're on, your browser makes a
connection to each of the ad's providers linked to on the given page. What's
best (or worst) about this is the connection isn't broken until you close your
browser (at least that I noticed).

I mentioned this to my girlfriend who is a big fan of adblock and she asked (of
course) if that happened when adblock was running. So, off I went to install
adblock to test and sure enough, it still made the connections to the ad
providers' servers. Obviously the ads are hidden, it just still grabs the
resources for the ads but obscures their html.  That means you're still being
tracked by the ad providers, you just don't see it.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I mean, before adblock they were still
getting your information. Now it's the same, you're just not seeing animated
gifs and full screen flash ads all over. I'm not knocking adblock at all (in
fact, please support them in their worthy cause). I just thought I'd mention
this for anyone wondering.

Category:Adblock


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