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 hueving on Saturday April 15, 2017 @02:55AM (#14119718)

>Google is the greatest conglomeration of Nobel worthy scientists and engineers in the last century.

IIRC both Microsoft and IBM produce way more research than Google. Let's keep things in perspective.

>And their entire organization is built on advertising.

Similarly the entire government is built on taxation, that doesn't mean everyone in the government wants to work on taxation or is good at it.

>After creating the best search engine and email system

Sure engine, sure. Email system, only if you restrict to web-based without privacy.

>they created the best web browser and most popular operating system in the world

Google didn't create Android, they bought it.

>Google's open source contributions are unmatched

Metrics for this are pretty lame, but even they show this is wrong: https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/09/15/in-your-face-goo...

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by magicalist on Saturday April 15, 2017 @03:49AM (#14119829)

> Google didn't create Android, they bought it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

You'd have a better point if you had pointed to the Linux kernel, the many open source libraries, etc that make it up

> Metrics for this are pretty lame, but even they show this is wrong: https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/09/15/in-your-face-goo...

I doubt GP's claim is correct, but that article is terrible. Those counts are any contributors to repos in an org, not number of contributors from those orgs. And you can see the immediate problem with using orgs when you see both Google and Angular are in the top 10.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by Nexxxeh on Saturday April 15, 2017 @05:00AM (#14120001)

Android, Angular, BoringSSL, Chromium, Dart, Go, Kubernete, TensorFlow. Not to mention the cash and services it ploughs into the OSS in various ways, from the Millions it gave to Firefox over the years, to people collaborating over Hangouts, to Project Zero.

I don't think "unmatched" is unreasonable.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by NicoJuicy on Saturday April 15, 2017 @06:43AM (#14120212)

Millions to Firefox to be the search engine on the browser.

It wasn't a donation ;)

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by bigbugbag on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:32PM (#14135006)

And they made much more from firefox than what they paid.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by dheera on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:49PM (#14135096)

How so? If Firefox didn't exist they'd make the same amount from MSIE.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by shouldbworking on Sunday April 16, 2017 @03:16PM (#14127035)

Also the biggest contributors to KVM support in the Linux kernel, which is directly driving most of the container craze.

Also HBase, Hadoop, Guava, GWT, Closure. Tons of others we probably don't know of. I would guess Google has around 500 notable open source projects where they're either major contributors or authors.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by bigbugbag on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:35PM (#14135018)

You missed one:

>they created the best web browser

opera is not from google

Also I disagree with google search being the best search engine, it used to be very good 15 years ago with pages after pages of relevant results. It has gotten worse over the years to its current state of being terrible and often failing at returning relevant results.

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