Reply to post: Re: The ultimate ad-blocker

Adblock overlord to Zuckerberg: Lay down your weapons and surrender

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

Re: The ultimate ad-blocker

"So yeah, the visible viewport would not show ads to you; but this concept fails to address the bandwidth, performance, and security issues that the current generation of ads has foisted on us."

Security issues wouldn't be a factor unless you have an exploitable /dev/null. Bandwidth, set a maximum size - accept the first K or so and then break the connection. If the advertising agency has any wit they'll count that as the full advert sent and bill the client accordingly.

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