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Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:31PM (#37070280)
"Adtech is such a thoroughly gross field."

Someone else on HN called it "elegant" last week.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975056

Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel... by antoniojtorres on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:45PM (#37070391)
I work in ad tech and elegant is not a word I’d use. It’s very, very loosely coupled and has a grave transparency problem.
Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel... by sph on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:44AM (#37073182)
> "The current movement to avoid tracking is an extremely powerful centralizing force."

What a biased, myopic comment. As if ad companies are a grassroots movement against centralisation. As if ad tech is not in the hands of the powerful few tech companies.

They have defended ads in 2021 as well. I wonder where they work. I mean, somebody must be writing the backend for all these ad companies.