{"id":181285,"date":"2016-08-11T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/11\/and-the-arms-race-begins\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T23:37:00","slug":"and-the-arms-race-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/11\/and-the-arms-race-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Arms Race Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vKoLpi3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vKoLpi3.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Facebook creates ad blocker proof ads, and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/08\/11\/facebooks-blocker-blocking-ads-blocked-by-blockers\/\">the ad blockers block those ad blocker proof ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I use an Adblock plus.<\/p>\n<p>Ads frequently serve up malware.<\/p>\n<p>I also serve ads at my site.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the moral ambiguity here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">As you may have noticed over the last few days \u2014 I sure did \u2014 Facebook  recently incorporated a sneaky change to the way its ads are displayed  that disguised them as ordinary content and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/08\/09\/facebook-will-bypass-web-adblockers-but-offer-ad-targeting-opt-outs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circumvented ad blocking software in browsers<\/a>.  Ads crowded the streams of even the most vigilant users.&nbsp; But this hell  on earth was not to last: two days and change later, the Adblock Plus  community has found a way to block them again.<\/span><\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Expect more back and forth on this.<\/p>\n<p>My standard disclaimer the ads on my site apply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also, please note, this should be in no way construed as an inducement    or a request for my reader(s) to click on any ad that they would not    otherwise be inclined to investigate further. This would be a violation    of the terms of service for Google<sup>\u2122<\/sup> Adsense<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook creates ad blocker proof ads, and the ad blockers block those ad blocker proof ads. I use an Adblock plus. Ads frequently serve up malware. I also serve ads at my site. I understand the moral ambiguity here: As you may have noticed over the last few days \u2014 I sure did \u2014 Facebook &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1060,1072,989,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computer","category-google-adsense","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}