Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race

Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by tn135 on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:31PM (#14117068)

> If Google, Facebook, or other multi-billion dollar entities detect an existential threat arising from this or any other technology, rest assured that the laws will change as quickly as is necessary to keep them happy. Lobbyists will be paid, and donations will be made

Money will be paid and wolves will be invited in the house to essentially bring a legislation that is not enforceable. As a profit hungry business owner that sounds like a real bad move.

If I were google or facebook I would rather have a much more robust plan B that would involve using technology and size to benefit from the strategy.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by quotemstr on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:50PM (#14117239)

Oh, the legislation is enforceable all right: just require cryptographic remote attestation for access to online services.

Corey Doctorow was right about the coming war on general-purpose computing.

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