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Things are not "flexible" once they have been shipped on by default, typically. Changing behavior or removing at that point becomes very hard, requiring usage measurements, etc.
This is not on by default.
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With a portal, you are not on the original origin at all, you are on the new site once it's activated - I think you're thinking of signed exchanges which enable CDNed like experiences. Portals are essentially iframes, but once activated they become the top level origin.
If portals really were iframes, there would be no reason to create them. Google is completely open about their intentions. Citation from https://github.com/WICG/portals/blob/master/key-scenarios.md : > After being activated, a portal opened by the news aggregator will now receive the input events. This means that it will have to co-operate with the news aggregator in order to maintain the desired user experience. Why…
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If portals really were iframes, there would be no reason to create them. Google is completely open about their intentions. Citation from https://github.com/WICG/portals/blob/master/key-scenarios.md : > After being activated, a portal opened by the news aggregator will now receive the input events. This means that it will have to co-operate with the news aggregator in order to maintain the desired user experience. Why…
Doesn't it just mean that both sides have to maintain postMessage() handling? Just like host and iframe with different origins. Google will not be able to receive any events/messages unless they're sent by not-google.com. That's what I understand from it, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Exactly: the integration requires cooperation from both websites, and there is zero reasons, why child website would want to cooperate. Unlike, say, using Google Analytics, letting user leave you via tag is against website's best interests.
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I don’t use an Adblocker due to ethical concerns. (Not trying to convince you to do the same, just explaining.) It’s, uh, really not that bad. I rarely notice banner ads and the like. If a particular site gets really egrigious, I leave the site. I suspect that after using Adblock for years, your brain has forgotten how to ignore them.
To be truly ethical, you must watch the ads.
Again, not trying to convince anyone here, I just don't feel comfortable with it personally.
Is this coming to Chromium/Blink or only Chrome?
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Doesn't duckduckgo use Bing on the back end?
DuckDuckGo has their own crawler (DuckDuckBot), and they also serve modified results from other search engines (including Bing and Yandex). https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Also just realized, as much as people like to push all the snark about Microsoft regarding Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, that's exactly what Google is doing right now. With them dominating browser share, they can now push tags like this that only make ads more annoying. Geez we so badly need a more balanced browser landscape.
OTOH, they grew up indoctrinated to Google and so refuse to see the water coming slowly to a boil.
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If you're connected to a VPN, install pi-hole on that network and use it as dns. If not, just get blokada from f-droid. It uses 1-3% energy over the day on my phone, but saves around 15% by filtering ads
This is why Google is pushing DNS-over-HTTPS into Chrome, so that DNS-based ad blocking will no longer work.
Looks to me as an effort to make any user visiting google.com to not actually leave google.com FOREVER. Users will get portal-ed to a result page (with the browser's url bar showing foo.com, instead of google.com), but the user will be tracked the entire time from google, since they would be still on google.com.
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/09/google-creates-dedicated-...