The Great Cannon has been deployed again
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The Great Cannon has been deployed again
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Re: The Great Cannon has been deployed again
#2This is a good counter example for whenever you find yourself in an argument with anti-adblocker folks.
Re: The Great Cannon has been deployed again
#3This is a good counter example for whenever you find yourself in an argument with anti-adblocker folks.
Why? The Great Cannon is served from a proxy. It can inject whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to swap out ad tracker JS.
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#4This is a good counter example for whenever you find yourself in an argument with anti-adblocker folks.
Or "Why should I care about security, I have nothing of value" folks.
You do have something of value: Bandwidth.
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#5This is a good counter example for whenever you find yourself in an argument with anti-adblocker folks.
This is a tiring example of why the web and all its technologies thoroughly suck. It's a boiling toilet fueled by greed.
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#6I didn’t see this anywhere in the article (maybe I missed it), but because this utilizes the Great Firewall, it’s undoubtedly done by the Chinese government, right?
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#7So if the cannon is created using the great firewall, how does the Chinese government establish any sort of plausible argument that this isn't state-sponsored activity?
Do they just not care?
Some day soon a war will not be started with an assassins bullet but with a tool like this. I wonder when we start looking at them the same way?
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#8This is a good counter example for whenever you find yourself in an argument with anti-adblocker folks.
But these folks still have no answer for how free websites they consume daily (e.g. news) are to be funded, they don't pay, and don't want to see ads either. Yet they still expect these websites to exist.
I use Firefox's built Enhanced Tracking Prevention, that some sites call "ad blocking" but in reality it is super easy to have ads that don't get blocked by it, just make them non-creepy.
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#9This is a good counter example for whenever you find yourself in an argument with anti-adblocker folks.
This is a tiring example of why the web and all its technologies thoroughly suck. It's a boiling toilet fueled by greed.
And yet here you are. I'm interested how you would perceive something that might supercede the internet by being better (than a boiling toilet fueled by greed), ignoring network effects?
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#10I've wondered about this, in the years since.
Does anyone else have a sense of what (if any) pragmatic technical steps could effectively deter or neuter this tactic?
If the network can't demonstrate the ability to at least pump the brakes on this, it's hard to imagine other states or even the owners of large safe-monopoly ISPs won't get a little jealous of the tool.