Interesting Links for 10-08-2016

[andrewducker]

Researchers crack open unusually advanced malware that hid for 5 years

(tags: Technology spying computers )

Facebook is going to show ads to people who use ad blockers

(tags: facebook advertising )

Toddlers form food preferences based on social cues

(tags: food children psychology )

Most North Carolina Trump Voters Won’t Believe in a Clinton Victory

(tags: politics OhForFucksSake )

Walking is 3 times more expensive than driving, from a fuel perspective

(tags: transport energy food fuel walking )

Comments

[matgb]

The whole FB circumventing ad blockers thing is one of those weird stories, given they already host their own adverts all they'd have needed to do ages ago was integrate ad images &c into the rest of the networks folder hierarchy and blocking them would've been difficult if not impossible anyway, adblockers would only be able to use CSS tricks to stop them displaying and that's just a cheap hack.

Given they are instead going to give users a lot more control over what ads they see and they are an ad funded site, I'm not going to be upset about what they're doing—of course, I'd rather they gave me a "pay us to see no ads" option as well but that's not the way the world's gone.

A site like FB that's always been ad funded, was set up to be ad funded and that tries to give you control is in a far better position to complain about/circumvent adblocking than media companies that've outsourced their ads to 3rd party CDNs that aren't secure enough to prevent attack vectors posing as ads, etc.