Would love to see how they work on picking adverts out of SSL pages.
Would also love to see how they deal with tracking and affiliates stuff in addition to banner adverts.
That latter one is an issue for me, I've found some sites to be simply unusable if AdBlock or Ghostery is running in my browser.
It's usually tracking code (LinkedIn Inbox is useless to me as are sites that add Omniture to their shop button), and occasionally I go to buy something which is an affiliate link and it gets treated as an advert click and stopped.
So it's important not to go too far and break the internet either (though in my view it is the sites that add all this stuff that are breaking it).
If this stuff is all in a black box without external configuration... then how do you correct the false positives?
All looked good, but as it includes more than just banner advertisers (shock sites, tracking sites - privacy issues) he'd have more false positives than I did.
Ghostery and the like (browser plugins) are reasonably easy to just disable when you come across an instance that it breaks functionality in a web page. But using a hosts file or DNS block, it was much more opaque about why it was failing as you'd have to remember something you'd forgotten about: You've blocked this thing at the DNS level, it wouldn't resolve. Or more to the point, it would resolve to a local web server that served up zero bytes.
That's my worry with a black box on the line... how easy is it to override in those edge cases, and will they play safe by sticking just to known banner adverts and not tracking sites which are sometimes necessary parts of functionality (due to the fact that links are redirected via the tracking site).
Would love to see how they work on picking adverts out of SSL pages.
Would also love to see how they deal with tracking and affiliates stuff in addition to banner adverts.
That latter one is an issue for me, I've found some sites to be simply unusable if AdBlock or Ghostery is running in my browser.
It's usually tracking code (LinkedIn Inbox is useless to me as are sites that add Omniture to their shop button), and occasionally I go to buy something which is an affiliate link and it gets treated as an advert click and stopped.
So it's important not to go too far and break the internet either (though in my view it is the sites that add all this stuff that are breaking it).
If this stuff is all in a black box without external configuration... then how do you correct the false positives?