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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by wmf on Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:13PM (#14464805)
Chrome already has its TLS version treadmill and a blacklist of evil sites, so this is not really the first step down that slope.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by wheelerwj on Thursday June 01, 2017 @10:51PM (#14467078)
no but it is a huge step. using your platform to block competitors is the definition of anti-trust.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by clhodapp on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:09AM (#14467829)
Well... It's the sort of thing so-called anti-trust laws were designed to prevent but it's the definition of anti-competitive, not anti-trust.
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