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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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Re: Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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Maybe each household should host its army of noise-making AI which spews out page visits and random searches in order to let the people hide in the noise.

Projects like these existed, I think it was an extension, but we'd probably need to do better than that.

Re: Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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Waving that don't be evil flag proudly eh team.

I hate ads as much as anyone but providing a free service that runs ads and shares part of that income with content creators is hardly particularly evil.

Lately I started getting shocksites kind of ads (think goatse.cx) of horrific cases of fungus in the legs or whatever. I pressed x on several occasions, naively thinking that anyone cares. Then I decided I don't want to see an ad in my life again. I got ublock origin on firefox and moved to Vivaldi browser in my android (which is a really good browser, coming with an adblocker out of the box). The hardest thing is in the non digital world though, walking in the streets it is hard to look away from the shiny big ass screens everywhere. But with AR vision in the next 5 years it would become obsolete as well.

And if you happen to be a tech giant that can drive the industry literally to every direction you want for decades, and what you choose to innovate is ad tech and NOTHING else, you're not evil, just stupid. Well maybe both. Or either. But definitely stupid.

Re: Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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Waving that don't be evil flag proudly eh team.

I hate ads as much as anyone but providing a free service that runs ads and shares part of that income with content creators is hardly particularly evil.

True, but it just isn't that simple.

We have all seen that there are absolutely no boundaries on how many adds and pop-ups sites get plastered with.

They aren't trying to balance it out on their sites, they just try to make as much money as possible. That isn't an acceptable user experience.

Now pair that with the world's most used search engine rewarding the most amount of (their) adds. It is a hellscape.

Re: Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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Waving that don't be evil flag proudly eh team.

I hate ads as much as anyone but providing a free service that runs ads and shares part of that income with content creators is hardly particularly evil.

I would accept ads more easily with if they were not a privacy disaster.

I’m watching a video about cars, sure show me the ad about this crappy car brand I will never buy. I’m reading an article about Prometheus, sure show me an ad about your greatest SaaS metrics platform that cost more per monitored machine than my machine.

No needs for cookies and tracking.

Re: Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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This is a dumb article that's trying and failing to tie Attestation to ad blocking.

> However, how this plays out with browsers that allow extensions or are modified remains a grey area. As the proposal vaguely mentions, "Web Environment Integrity attests the legitimacy of the underlying hardware and software stack, it does not restrict the indicated application’s functionality."

That's not vague at all.

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