"No no, I'm not a thief, but me and my 1200 paying friends would like to take a look around your house, may we come in?"
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This shit should be illegal.
When I browse a website without the dialog I assume they’re not disclosing anything, but as a web developer that’s super against this my own websites are dialog free too.
It’s sad that we expect this behavior from “normal” websites.
That's why I appreciate the few and far between sites that have a banner... That's just "we don't track or nuffin', see here what we do", so it's clear that they've considered, any potential scripts did load successfully, and they're hopefully not lying
Another finger on the monkey's paw curls are the ad blockers become illegal.
A script that shows a modal box or whatever when something fails to load as expected need not spy on you to function, but maybe I'm reading into a funny post more than I should be.
You're technically correct (the best kind of correct).
It's trivial to attempt a connection to an ad server and detect the failure and display a dialog.
The problem is that (publishers don't want to acknowledge) there's no difference between advertising and malware.

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