blocking ads is evil grr
HTTP is a pull-based medium. it is within the original philosophy of HTTP to selectively pull the data, for example, a device that doesn't support images won't download them. by circumventing ad "blocking", you are spitting in the face of HTTP. a more accurate term would be ad rejection. ads are not "blocked", they are simply not asked for.
@lynnesbian Which is why Google and pals were pushing (pun intended) HTTP 2.0. Also why they’re pushing for obfuscated/binary formats. We’re already seeing CDNs bake in content and ads and proxy tracking via first-party calls etc., to circumvent blocking. In extension-based blockers that can run arbitrary JavaScript, what we have is literally a JavaScript battle in your browser as the blocker and anti-blocking scripts go at it in a game of cat of mouse. Adtech is malware.
@aral @lynnesbian also, TLS is an obfuscated binary format, arguably… are you against that too?
Uhm... well I'm against TLS abuse...
Would you like to prove I'm wrong? :-D
@Shamar what abuse do you mean? Except for rogue CAs/nation states, and — to a lesser degree because HSTS — network operators, I'm ignorant of other abuses. Obviously I'm against those abuses I mentioned though. (Also, removed others, as a courtesy).
For example whenever you use #HTTPS without having any form, receiving any user data or distributing sensible contents.
That's a bad use of #TLS that was spread by #incompetence and #GroupThink, but has serious consequences:
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites-made-them-less-accessible/
Exactly: very good example of #incompetence and #GroupThink: disable JavaScript by default and you will completely block the attack described and with proper mitigations it also improve security when the user willfully enable it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487081#c16
#LetsEncrypt can make them worse: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/01/global-dns-hijacking-campaign-dns-record-manipulation-at-scale.html
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In general, people who cannot think a context where NOT to use a technology, are not ready to use it and need more study of the topic.
@Shamar this is a very polite way of calling me ignorant, nice job 👍🏼
Are you the author of that article?
@dshafik @lynnesbian Yeah, man, I’m definitely against TLS. You really got the measure of me there. Tell me, are blocks on Mastodon binary formats?