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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by abtinf on Thursday June 01, 2017 @10:54PM (#14467089)
Replace the word "ads" with "popups" in your comment and you would be making an argument for a return to a horrible era.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by cm2187 on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:00AM (#14468025)
In fact this "ad blocker" is more of a popup and auto play blocker. It doesn't really mean to block ads. And worse than that, it does nothing to block or even reduce the tracking of users. In fact I haven't seen a single new feature in Chrome that would make tracking more difficult. Rather the contrary.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by flyingfences on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:24AM (#14469662)
> it does nothing to block or even reduce the tracking of users. In fact I haven't seen a single new feature in Chrome that would make tracking more difficult.

Of course not. Google makes their money through ads; they wouldn't do anything that would hurt their money-making abilities.

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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by inimino on Friday June 02, 2017 @07:23AM (#14469085)
Popups and popunders were due to a browser feature (window.open) which was open to horrible abuse, and browsers were right to make this feature more restricted over time.

Browsers fixing their own UI mistakes and browsers setting and enforcing rules for content are two entirely different things.

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