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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by nequo on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:50AM (#36876158)
Google is a monopolist that acts like a monopolist. Its main revenue source is advertising. So it will use its monopoly power to secure advertising.

You cannot expect Google to act against its own self-interest only because you ask nicely. You have to stop giving them the market power to do it.

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by cmilton on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:11AM (#36876348)
Have they won the game of capitalism by becoming a monopoly?

I don’t expect Google to act against its own will, but they should.

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by nequo on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:12AM (#36878042)
I don’t know if they won the game of capitalism but their market power and profit incentive are facts.

If you don’t want to stop using Chrome, then your alternative is to buy a controlling share of Alphabet and appoint a Board that forgoes advertising revenue in exchange for being nice to adblock users.

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