AdBlock replacing ads with anti-censorship messages this weekend

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/03/world-day-against-cyber-censorship-ad-protest/

by Urgo • 10 years ago

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hijackedt• 10 years ago

Oh goody.

I appreciate the causes but the precedent is terrible.

Mithaldu• 10 years ago

Yep, an ad blocker should act as a fully agnostic content blocker, stopping content of all kinds, designated by the user, from crossing the network. It should not under any circumstance cause frivolous extra use of the network connection, at least not without asking. Quite a few people use these not just to get rid of an annoyance, but to manage quotas on their connection better.

CM30• 10 years ago

Agreed. Anti censorship messages are a good thing, but this sort of concept could easily be adjusted to push all kinds of worrying propoganda and political messages.

It also reminds me a bit much of how old school adware used to replace ad on sites with ones that send the money to the malware's developers. That's another worrying thing that could be done with this sort of feature in the future.

Maxious• 10 years ago

Previously: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318200

AdBlock replacing ads with anti-censorship messages this weekend

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