Ad Blocking Stopping Video Playback

[Redhaze737]

Not thinking ad blocking had anything to do with golf I installed an ad blocker created by a team at Princeton University.

 

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/princetons-ad-blocking-superweapon-may-put-an-end-to-the-ad-blocking-arms-race

 

When reading about it, I thought the ad blocking only worked when on Facebook. Then I tried to play a video found on Golfwrx. Low and behold, the video would not work. Apparently, there is info being sent to Facebook when you are looking at a video on Golfwrx. I never thought about it, but perhaps all those icons at the bottom of the page under the video showing Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc are saying this ad is sponsored? According to the article in the link above that info is supposed to be displayed according to rules from the FTC.

 

Now, I'm not against someone knowing I'm watching their video about Trackman or Early Extension, but thought it interesting that I'm being tracked in this way. You never know who's watching eh?

[LouieLouie]

Not thinking ad blocking had anything to do with golf I installed an ad blocker created by a team at Princeton University.

 

https://motherboard....cking-arms-race

 

When reading about it, I thought the ad blocking only worked when on Facebook. Then I tried to play a video found on Golfwrx. Low and behold, the video would not work. Apparently, there is info being sent to Facebook when you are looking at a video on Golfwrx. I never thought about it, but perhaps all those icons at the bottom of the page under the video showing Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc are saying this ad is sponsored? According to the article in the link above that info is supposed to be displayed according to rules from the FTC.

 

Now, I'm not against someone knowing I'm watching their video about Trackman or Early Extension, but thought it interesting that I'm being tracked in this way. You never know who's watching eh?

 

I don't know if you are talking about on your phone or computer but it doesn't matter much anymore these days. If you install an app or software, (especially social media or game oriented) the fine print basically gives them permission to record everything you do on your device; related or not. This includes reading your email, browser history, videos watched, services used, etc. They also use geofencing now, which means if they tie everything to your phone, they will target you by targeting the location of your phone. So if you walk near a video billboard, a trackman advertisement might just pop up depending on how many other people have watched videos of trackman around you.

Your cell phone company sells your phone data, your cable/internet provider sells your watching data, your credit card company sells your purchasing data, as does your bank. All in the name of "advertising." Oh and the NSA/CIA/etc collect it all.

Privacy of any kind is dead.

[Redhaze737]

LOL Yes, privacy is dead. I was talking about viewing on my computer.

[bscinstnct]

You just figured out that everbody can see evrything you do on your phone and send it to everybody else to put ads in front of you.

 

Thats the whole reason your phone exists ; )

[Redhaze737]

It seems to work well for them. I keep putting golf balls in the cart at LGB, but not buying, hoping they'll send me a sale coupon. Not buying until they do...... :=)

[Argonne69]

On my PC, I use a cookie manager and NoScript. It allows me to finely control which sites can set cookies (none,temp,session,permanent), as well as run JavaScript. It can be a pain on sites that you use regularly, as one has to figure out which affiliates sites need to run JavaScript to provide needed behavior. Otherwise, disabling JavaScript can really cut down on the cr*p.

 

After the recent signing of the bill to allow ISPs to sell browsing history, I finally got off my a** and installed a VPN.