Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
by DEADBEEFC0FFEE on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:02AM
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How do you know a site will have content you want? Surely there's room for a bit of uncertainty.
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Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
by dspillett on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:30AM
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> How do you know a site will have content you want?
I'm often told in advance, by virtue of it coming up in a search result, promoted link, friends post, etc.
"This site contains adverts that perform obtrusive tracking" is seldom mentioned before or during the visit, the only way to know is by trying to block all such things and seeing the site fail if it tries to block the blocking.
Sometimes the advance information of content relevance is deceptive of course, and this often coincides with darkest patterns in the advertising/tracking.
Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
by cb504 on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:00AM
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when a site identifies my ad blocker and specifically asks that i disable it, then i have to decide either to momentarily disable my ad blocker and view the content, or leave the site.
the Big Media people don't want to be so upfront about their restrictions. "if they don't know about the restrictions, they won't get angry."