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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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Maybe it'd be healthier for all of us in the long run to just unplug, go outside, and visit a library or join a social club. Or we can just unplug from the ~~internet~~ corpo-net and go full Fediverse and FOSS. I'm sure there's plenty of people already doing it here on Lemmy.
Im here to vouch for camping, specifically burns.
Its a great way to talk to folks in a generally left leaning environment, try new things, have wild experiences, and you all use your superhero names so nobody actually knows who you are.
great way to disconnect from the internet in a made-up society that is a bit nicer, plus theres a cool fire
It's just a paywall with extra steps.
Anyone that implements it I won't use their content unless it's absolutely necessary. I think stack exchange may be the only site that has enough pull for me to visit them anyway.
Any browser that gets around it I'll use instead. I'm already using Brave, Firefox and Edge instead of chrome.
Really All this is going to do is create a opportunity for AI ad removal, Man in the middle rendering raster scraping the data removing anything that looks like an ad.
It’s worse than that. As it stands, I’m blocked from ~30+% of the web because of Cloudflare. Unjailing the content into archive.org’s #WaybackMachine is indispensable. From the article:
“Websites funded by ads require proof that their users are human and not bots”
I already lose copious access to content as a human being treated like a bot. #Google’s plan is to take the next #CAPTCHA extreme. It’s the wrong direction.
Robots work for the user, not against. I created a bot to find me a house because the real estate sites lacked the search criteria I needed. I scraped the sites & found the ideal house. This would be nearly impossible today & Google brings it closer to impossible.
That is a great idea for a browser extension. An AI module that hides ads and clicks x’s and generally fucks with their engagement numbers but don’t let any of it get to your eyeballs.
Here you go: https://adnauseam.io/
yeah, DRM is a harder beast for a video feed, but static webpages? I don't see how they could actually stop you if you're rendering to the screen.
#Google will make you want to unplug (as Cloudflare has done to me), but if you’re in Europe you will be unable to because European governments have already killed off offline infrastructure (#digitalTransformation). There are already a number of government transactions & public services that can no longer be done offline.
Why cloudflare? Honest question
Cloudflare is an exclusive walled garden that blocks a marginalized¹ segment of people from most of their sites.
① People whose ISP uses #CGNAT, Tor users, users with text browsers, beneficial bots (which serve humans), impaired people (who can’t solve CF’s CAPTCHAs), those who distrust a US corp to have visibility on the plaintext contents of every single packet including usernames and passwords, etc.