Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
by FormulatedEdits on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:20AM
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And if ad-blockers are considered illegitimate software?
This would be entirely in line with financial incentives of the proposed attesters and even logically defensible (oh well, we haven’t vetted uBlock, so you can’t browse with that installed).
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
by nottorp on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:32AM
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And if I want to use links on z80?
And aside from niche platforms, do you want the 3 big companies to decide what you're allowed to see on the internet?
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
by anthk on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:34PM
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More like Links on a 486.
If this happens, I won't use anything else but IRC, XMPP, NNTP, Gopher and Gemini.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
by FormulatedEdits on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:33PM
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I think you may have misunderstood my comment, which was disagreeing with the parent comment.
I do not want those companies (or anyone, really) to be able to decide what is or is not an allowed hardware/software setup to access anything.
> However, how this plays out with browsers that allow extensions or are modified remains a grey area. As the proposal vaguely mentions, "Web Environment Integrity attests the legitimacy of the underlying hardware and software stack, it does not restrict the indicated application’s functionality."
That's not vague at all.