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BrianKrebs

@gcluley My problem with ad blockers is they are all or nothing. None of them consider whether ads are third-party or in-house, or indicate that to users. As a result, very, very few users who rely on ad blockers ever allow ads on any sites, even those that strictly observe same-origin policies about ads.

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Charlie Stross

@briankrebs But almost nobody does in-house ads any more—advertisers go via the big ad exchanges because that's how to get placed of lots of sites.

masukomi

@cstross @briankrebs to build on what Charlie said, for the handful of remaining sites that are in-house ads AND don't assault you with 50,000 ads per page you can just disable the blocker on that site.

I did that for daringfireball.net/ because he's not a jerk about it and he wasn't using one of the major ad networks (at least in the past dunno about now).

BrianKrebs

@masukomi @cstross KrebsOnSecurity hasn't run third-party ads in over a decade, but a huge percentage of my regular readers block any in-house ads on my site.

waldi

@briankrebs

Do you have an example of such a page? And how can you be sure they don't just act as proxy?

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