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https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=red...
You should just be able to unzip it.
[1]:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/perceptual-ad-bloc...
On the technical side, Google can just close up its browser, prevent ad-blocking malware, require only compliant browsers to connect to its site, and all sites that depend on advertising dollars can jump on board.
Unless they decide to simply change the regulations, which doesn't take the same investment in time, development, and bad PR.
Once faced with having to pay for the internet again, people will be fine with either of those options.
If anyone want's the source of the proof of concept extension[1] here's a link to get it. Just use wget https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=red... You should just be able to unzip it. [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/perceptual-ad-bloc...
1: https://github.com/citp/ad-blocking/tree/master/perceptual-a...
This is not the end of the arms race. At some point we will have AI designing and AI delivering ads, and while we may have AI designed to prevent us from having to watch ads we don't want we will also have AI that watches everything, gathering and filtering information that is too much for us to handle but tuned to our needs since it's "our AI". Then the race will be that one AI wants to trick the consumer AI into gi…
What would a post-ad-supported web looks like? Only selling user data without a way to use it to target ads? Consumer software that isn't free? Sock puppet marketing run rampant? It would sure be a different world.
> What would a post-ad-supported web looks like? Probably a lot like the pre-ad-supported web.
This is not the end of the arms race. At some point we will have AI designing and AI delivering ads, and while we may have AI designed to prevent us from having to watch ads we don't want we will also have AI that watches everything, gathering and filtering information that is too much for us to handle but tuned to our needs since it's "our AI". Then the race will be that one AI wants to trick the consumer AI into gi…
This is a beginning of a new arms race, not an end. We'll now see an explosion of machine cheating and computer blinding techniques.
The article puts a significant emphasis on the idea that bulletproof ad-blocking technology, assuming that's what this turns out to be in practice, will work long-term becuase of legal restrictions imposed by the FTC. If Google, Facebook, or other multi-billion dollar entities detect an existential threat arising from this or any other technology, rest assured that the laws will change as quickly as is necessary to k…