Batu69 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 There's been a lot of talk lately about ad-blocking thanks to iOS 9. It's a tough call, given that some users don't want to see ads, but the sites they visit wouldn't exist without those ads -- block them and the sites go away, eventually. That makes for quite a conundrum, and Mozilla is trying sort it out. The Firefox maker refers to it more benignly as "content blocking".Mozilla hasn't quite figured this all out and it is looking for users to help with the puzzle. The organization isn't interested in what the problem is, but is focusing more on why users choose to do this by utilizing blocking agents. This isn't a new problem and the organization has been looking into it for a while. "What we see is that the reasons differ among users and may depend on the device (e.g. on desktop users may be focused on privacy and performance may be a side benefit, whereas on mobile performance and data usage may be a main focus). We as an industry need to understand the user’s needs", Mozilla states.To that end, Mozilla wants help testing its latest feature -- private browsing with tracking protection. This is available in the new beta release of Firefox. One would have thought that tracking protection would have been a part of private browsing in all browsers, but it apparently is not.As he is wont to do, John Dvorak pointed out the most dire consequences in a recent column discussing "native advertising" -- ads disguised as stories. "In the future everything you read will be unreliable, except for the few marginalized nooks of real information".Indeed, he is likely right, but hopefully his vision of the future doesn't come to fruition.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cereberus Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 the thing is they want total 100% market share, meaning that no one can block ads at all....they won't settle with the fact that some not all, are blocking ads, and that pisses them off -.-;so not sure what their complaining about. not everyone bothers to even use adblockers. so they should leave the few of us who do the heck alone :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212eta Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 The thing is they want total 100% market share...As we say 'utopia'... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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