Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by FormulatedEdits on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:20AM (#36875834)

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).

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by nottorp on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:32AM (#36875957)

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?

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by anthk on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:34PM (#36880513)

More like Links on a 486. If this happens, I won't use anything else but IRC, XMPP, NNTP, Gopher and Gemini.

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by FormulatedEdits on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:33PM (#36881555)

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.

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by anthk on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:36AM (#36875996)

You can't block a hosts file, or a firewall between you and your ISP.

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