Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari

Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by cptskippy on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:39AM (#21027160)

And then what? Google will say that it's protecting critical functions from breaking and to piss off. Suddenly Google is a monopoly in the ad space because they have the predominant browser and let through only their ads.

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by zie on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:41AM (#21027918)

they arguably are effectively a monopoly now. Them doing things like this isn't remotely new. They just got caught tracking everyone's smart TV usage. Nothing will happen to them until:

1) the Government decides to intervene.

2) Users give up and start using different services.

I'm pushing for #2, but then I switched off like a decade ago, when I saw the writing on the wall.

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by ummonk on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:53PM (#21028790)

Were they tracking smart tv usage or were smart tv manufacturers using google apis to store their tracking data?

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by zie on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:44PM (#21029926)

Both it seems:

"The most prevalent tracker, Google's doubleclick.net, showed up in 975 of the top 1,000 Roku channels, with Google analytics trackers showing up in 360, the researchers found." - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/studies-google-n...

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