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Anti-adblocker firm PageFair's users hit by fake Flash update

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Hah!

"Yes, many third-party services benefit people other than visitor but it's far too general a statement to say that all third-party services do."

Yeahbut, why do 3rd party scripts have to load from "home base" instead of being installed on the domain I'm visiting? Most of the so-called 3rd party scripts etc could just as easily work by being local to the domain and probably much faster since less DNS etc. I'm sick of waiting at some site because the 3rd party stuff is talking ages to load. Unless they have some unique information I want or the best possible price, then I'm out of there.

I'm betting that the 3rd party providers do it this way because they also want their share of data collection/harvesting as well the cash from the site owners paying for the service (or it's "free" in exchange for harvesting data)

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