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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
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[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 231 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

And then the plan to force everyone to abandon Firefox whether they like it or not.

  1. Implement the misfeatures.
  2. Movie and music websites will be the first to announce requiring DRM to be able to watch movies or listen to tunes.
  3. The banks will be next. "For your safety, you must use an Official Approved Browser™ to be allowed access to your money!"
  4. Then ecommerce sites. "You must have DRM enabled to be allowed to buy anything."
  5. Then comes the social media sites. For your safety, of course...

At that point, the userbase of anything that's not Chrome or not DRM'd to death will be so eroded that virtually everyone else will abandon Firefox support, DRM will get enabled by default. Also, comes the lobbyists to Congress demanding changes to the DMCA to throw users in prison who dare to try to crack the DRM to block ads. "Ad-blocking is stealing!"

[–] Tired8281@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Just means I'll have the shittiest Chromebook I can buy used, for access to the sites you just listed, and my Linux laptop for everything else. If their non-financial, non-commerce site won't let me in with my adblocking Linux machine, I just won't go there. There will be lots of site still, run by us, that don't do this shit, and they'll get my traffic.

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just means I’ll have the shittiest Chromebook I can buy

Google Exec: "But you did buy it, yes?"

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Also gotta make sure it doesn't "expire" or be the sucker buying ewaste that's "no longer supported"

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