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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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I hate to say it, but if you used Chrome to read this, then you're part of the problem. Awful stuff like this wouldn't stand a chance if Google didn't have such a near-monopoly position. For the sake of the open internet, please switch to a different browser. IMO, Firefox is best*, but even something chromium based is probably fine. Just not Google Chrome. * On desktop - Firefox is a bit weaker on Android, with an ex…

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

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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…

Definitely seems like we will have a commercial internet run to satisfy corporations and an adjunct internet that is federated and open for free thinkers. I think focusing on federated publishing tools is the best route around these ideas.

Remember the corporations will need to be more disruptive than a nuclear war to break the internet. We can always route around them ourselves.

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

#83

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…

As someone who has built a business on browsing certain website using Chrome in headless mode this proposal worries me, and it has the potential to destroy large commercial segments of other similar companies.

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

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I think they are signing the end of chrome dominance. People are going to flee to Firefox.

That won't happen. "Normies" don't care. At all. They just want the fastest thing and are happy to watch ads popping up all 5 minutes all day.

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

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post #81

I hate to say it, but if you used Chrome to read this, then you're part of the problem. Awful stuff like this wouldn't stand a chance if Google didn't have such a near-monopoly position. For the sake of the open internet, please switch to a different browser. IMO, Firefox is best*, but even something chromium based is probably fine. Just not Google Chrome. * On desktop - Firefox is a bit weaker on Android, with an ex…

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This is news to me; when and how does Google own Firefox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

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

#87

I hate to say it, but if you used Chrome to read this, then you're part of the problem. Awful stuff like this wouldn't stand a chance if Google didn't have such a near-monopoly position. For the sake of the open internet, please switch to a different browser. IMO, Firefox is best*, but even something chromium based is probably fine. Just not Google Chrome. * On desktop - Firefox is a bit weaker on Android, with an ex…

You can actually use more extensions on Android. It's just more involved than it should be. The trick is to create an "extension collection" from your Mozilla account. Then you can use any extension, and a lot of them just work.

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

#88
How does this prevent ad-blocking?

If website you visits asks you to confirm that you are a human user from some 3rd party API isn't that same as requiring captcha?

You can still have browser extensions that filter the ads away after the website sends you the final HTML, right?

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

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post #81

I hate to say it, but if you used Chrome to read this, then you're part of the problem. Awful stuff like this wouldn't stand a chance if Google didn't have such a near-monopoly position. For the sake of the open internet, please switch to a different browser. IMO, Firefox is best*, but even something chromium based is probably fine. Just not Google Chrome. * On desktop - Firefox is a bit weaker on Android, with an ex…

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> Firefox is owned by Google

You're gonna have to explain why you think this, because publicly, Firefox is owned by Mozilla which is not owned by Google in any way.

But maybe you know something the rest of us don't?

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

#90

I hate to say it, but if you used Chrome to read this, then you're part of the problem. Awful stuff like this wouldn't stand a chance if Google didn't have such a near-monopoly position. For the sake of the open internet, please switch to a different browser. IMO, Firefox is best*, but even something chromium based is probably fine. Just not Google Chrome. * On desktop - Firefox is a bit weaker on Android, with an ex…

>Firefox is a bit weaker on Android, with an extemely limited set of extensions

Definitely not with the Iceweasel fork. https://github.com/fork-maintainers/fenix

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