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How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works

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Re: How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works

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Post by jacksmith21006 »

samfisher83 wrote: post #46

It sounds like Google is using it's Monopoly position to control the ad space. Microsft used these tatics to get like 90+% marketshare before the government stepped in.chrome is open source it shouldn't be too hard to modify the code so it block Google ads too. I publish a browser which is a modified version of chrome which block ads. The issue is a lot of sites now detect this and tell you to disable it. They seem t…

Did you read the article?

Re: How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works

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Post by bostik »

rmrfrmrf wrote: post #21
rocqua wrote: post #14

How will this not lead to google strangling their competitors. Are we really going to have to just trust them to use this fairly? Will we really expect google to interpret the Better Ads Standard without any bias, treating their own ads equally to other ads? Maybe they will be good, but I for one am not comfortable with this. Imagine what happens when chrome decides Facebook ads deserve to be blocked.

According to the article, this is more about google's competitors strangling them (by being so intrusive that customers consider full ad blockers to be necessary).

Credit where it's due - they're right. Full ad blockers are necessary.

Re: How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works

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Post by ec109685 »

jasode wrote: post #63
d2wa wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does say in the article that AdSense and Analytics is on the blocklist.

That article's sentence that you're pointing to does not explicitly address the specific whitelist scenario I laid out. The article's sentence: "Google appears to be shipping the entirety of EasyList and EasyPrivacy; which includes blocking rules for Google’s own AdSense and DoubleClick advertisement platforms as well as Google Analytics," ... is only talking about the existence of AdSense on EasyList -- because the…

The article states google will block _every_ ad on websites that violate the standard, which means google’s own ads as well.

Re: How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works

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Post by kazagistar »

Santosh83 wrote: post #17

It's a bit surreal that an advertising based company's browser will now block annoying ads by default while the privacy focused Mozilla corporation's browser is still not implementing any kind of built-in ad blocking.

The most annoying thing about Mozillas recent behavior is when they bake something into Firefox that should have been an addon. I for one am glad uBO or whatever isn't baked in.
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