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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by papruapap on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:39AM (#36876031)
It should fairly simple for MS to block this API (if they wish to).
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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by Moldoteck on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:48AM (#36876126)
depends how the api is designed. If it'll be integrated deep into chromium, disabling it would cost too much time
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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by notpushkin on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:55AM (#36876206)
I don't think so. Even if it's impossible to exclude it from the builds, they can just remove it from the JavaScript global scope or something.
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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by adrianN on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:50AM (#36876151)
Why would they? They make money with ads too
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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by papruapap on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:19AM (#36878163)
But Googles makes way more, will make compete with Google even harder in the future (deeper pockets).
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