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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2020 21:54:04 GMT
Anyone else getting the grumpy adblocker face when using Firefox ? What is Bidfilter.com ?
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 28, 2020 22:41:43 GMT
..only a quick check, so I may be wrong, but I'd assess it as a filter site/page owners can contract with to control and filter "bid" pages that are placed in their advertising slots, such that they don't get "undesirable" inserts (oooh, matron!) |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2020 0:02:07 GMT
I get the impression it's more of a wingey, wingey, we want access to your cookiies/personal data and the browser is blocking us winge, winge, winge, if you don't give us access we're going to store your IP address and take further action if you don't give us access fuckwittery.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 29, 2020 10:20:15 GMT
...I can't see what you're seeing, so it could indeed be anything.
Having re-read some of the stuff from yesterday, however, Bidfilter is definitely an extension associated the page you've hit that controls and filters the adverts which might be placed in the advertising slots configured on the page.
It's used in the circumstances where the advertising to be placed has been selected by an independent bid process ("insert the advert for this slot which gives me the best financial return", though the dialogue is somewhat more complex than that, and requires a good bit of interaction, including, I think, a trawl of user data) over which the host page has little if any control, sometimes leading to some "interesting" or undesirable results that could be reputationally damaging. Bidfilter will allow you (the page owner) to filter out such undesirable results.
I think it's effectively a further step in the conventional header bidding process of programmatic advertising, and Firefox may be objecting to the additional, possibly "personal" data that that step is requesting.
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