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I know ads is a huge business. I never click them. Who clicks on ads? Really? What segment of Internet users does?
The latest, tone-deaf response from a Google engineer: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
I'd do the same thing if I was working for the devil and I knew it.
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They are the ones doing the work. They certainly have a choice not to.
Makes sense. This is the (labor) market selecting on services it wants to support. Employers like Google have no sort of leverage or responsibility here what-so-ever.
“What choice do I have?” - a Google engineer who drives a brand new Tesla, living in a $10k per month apartment.
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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…
… And arrogant enough to tell yourself you are the cool guy on the internet. It’s the arrogance that kills me.
The latest, tone-deaf response from a Google engineer: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
Privacy features like user-agent reduction, IP reduction, preventing cross- site storage, and fingerprint randomization make it more difficult to distinguish or reidentify individual clients, which is great for privacy, but makes fighting fraud more difficult. This matters to users because making the web more private without providing new APIs to developers could lead to websites adding more:
- sign-in gates to access basic content
- invasive user fingerprinting, which is less transparent to users and more difficult to control
- excessive challenges (SMS verification, captchas)
My question is whether there is any data to back up those claims.
The whole ad based web industry is really desperate to authenticate humans from bots isn’t?
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The same engineers doing this in exchange for money, healthcare, etc to put food on their tables and provide for their families? Not everyone has the ability to act on said 'choice' and risk their jobs, income, benefits.
If anyone does, it’s Google engineers. How much are they paid again? $100k? $200k? $300k? Seriously they have no agency here?
It's not that easy.
It isn't just "make ad-blocking (near) impossible" as the current title of the submission suggests. It is: Make browsing the internet possible only on Chrome, Safari or Edge (with no modifications or extensions). No competition allowed in browsers. Make browsing the internet possible only on macOS, Windows, Android or iOS (no custom Android distributions, definitely no LineageOS or GrapheneOS or whatever). No competi…
I know ads is a huge business. I never click them. Who clicks on ads? Really? What segment of Internet users does?
Also as others said, there are quite a few people who still click them or click the first ad-links in google searches