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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
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[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Losing your ad blocker on chrome is "just under" software designed to kill people? Lol really? Oh the oppression

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure it won't kill people like programming drones, but it is still unethical and would affect ~5 billion people negatively.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but you said "just under". There's a preeetty fuckin wide gap between blocking ad blockers and dropping bombs guy.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. It's not just ad blockers that is m issue with this. Read Mozilla's post for a bunch of valid concerns.
  2. If you read my reply there is a comma prior to the just which makes a pause if it makes it better you could read it as [it's] just under... Either way I am not trying to make the wide gape you are referring to, I was simply stating it as a matter of fact more ethical then programming for military use but still unethical.
[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not saying concerns aren't valid, I just took your comment to be calling it almost comparable to military software.

"..., it's just under..." means the same thing, but I think you mean "it's just under" as in "although, it's under" rather than "just" being a measurement?

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah not intending it as a measurement; this comes to mind in situations like this