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Re:Google Will Block Spammy Ads (Just Not Many of Its Own) by wand3r on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:09PM (#16379960)
> So many people claim that Google "owns" the coalition. Why does it even matter if you can't find any issue in the standard they've come up with?

The answer to this question is self evident. It matters that the people who write the rules are part of the competition. Further, the people who write the rules also enforce them and in an opaque way (both technically and procedurally).

It doesn't matter to me, I use uBlock for adverts.

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Re:Google Will Block Spammy Ads (Just Not Many of Its Own) by ehsankia on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @11:53PM (#16381997)
Again, the result of said coalition is an open standard. If you can't find any flaw in said standard, why does it matter where it came from? For all I care, it could've been made by serial killers. I look at that list and see a reasonable and fair set of rules that I would like to see enforced.
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