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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by yakattak on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:33PM (#38495893)
My assumption is that banning them outright will make it super obvious you can’t run adblock on chrome. With Manifest V3 limiting their capabilities but not getting rid of them, the layman user will still feel like they have adblock and aren’t likely to know it’s not as powerful as it was before.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by bentcorner on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:03AM (#38499050)
Google might be trying to have their cake and eat it too - hamstring adblocking enough that their sites and ad networks can work around it but other sites and ad networks will remain blocked.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by jdironman on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:55AM (#38507474)
Keep your friends close, your enemies' closer kind of thing.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by orangepurple on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:03AM (#38499056)
This implies we are so stupid we won't realize we are seeing ads where we never saw them before.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by thesuperbigfrog on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:45AM (#38499374)
>> we won't realize we are seeing ads where we never saw them before.

Ads are the new content.

The killer app for LLMs is generating new and innovative ads that are entertaining and feel like content.

Imagine fun games like "Avoid the Noid" (https://www.mobygames.com/game/1095/avoid-the-noid/), "Cool Spot" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spot), and "McKids" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids), but with modern graphics and sound and promoting the most annoying brands and products.

Help people save money on their insurance by playing as the Geico lizard! Find out the dirt on used cars as the CarFax fox! Yesterday's annoying mascots are today's folk heroes.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by squidbeak on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:26AM (#38499699)
Ads will never be the 'new content'. If I want to read a news story, or find some key information, do you really suppose I will appreciate being confronted with "Avoid the Noid" or other fatuous games?
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by kjkjadksj on Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:06PM (#38501055)
News stories are often straight ads too, just quickly paraphrased retelling of a propaganda piece from the companies public relations department.
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