Re: [projectvrm] The Verge vs. Ad & Tracking Blockers

[Jonathan Peterson < >]

The brokenness of the Verge site with privacy badger actually may be a feature and not a bug (for advertisers at least). Since media companies need ad revenue to create content, I could see a publisher strategy of purposefully using the same ad tech to serve site content (say CSS and images). If you want to opt out of ads, you (and search engine spiders) get the pre-Mosaic text only web. Without ads this is likely an inevitability as publishers create rich content for sold or ad sponsored apps and allow their web presence to atrophy. Which, as you say, is only a piece of the web and hardly the source of all innovation.

I can't decide if this is a reasonable compromise, or a truly evil idea. Curious what others on the list think?

- J

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:24 AM Doc Searls < "> > wrote:

See <http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/17/9338963/welcome-to-hell-apple-vs-google-vs-facebook-and-the-slow-death-of-the-web>.

With PrivacyBadger enabled, the page won’t load. With PrivacyBadger disabled, the page does load — full of tracking jive, sez Ghostery:

It’s 12:40am here (Prague) and I need to hit the sack, or I’d say more. 

Doc 

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