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> I am curious how this will impact the web. It will make Google (the only ad company that actually outright steals personal data instead of acting nice and bu
by otabdeveloper1 11y ago
> I am curious how this will impact the web.
It will make Google (the only ad company that actually outright steals personal data instead of acting nice and building Bayesian models) into a monopoly. You can't adblock the Google.
(Obviously I'm exaggerating for emotional impact, but the basic gist is true. This is not a good development for privacy on the Internet!)
- stephenr 11y ago> You can't adblock the Google. Why not? I generally don't use Google services (certainly not their search), and (currently) Ghostery extension for Safari. I don't remember the last time I saw an ad, from any network, but certainly not Google. Your earlier comment "you can't block .google.com" also doesn't really mean much, because ads on third-party sites are served from adclick.net and google-syndication.com - not from google.com. Even if they changed that practice, and started using google.com to serve their ads - I'd happily block it. I don't want them to track me anonymously so why would I give them my information willingly by using their services?
- tomp 11y ago> You can't adblock the Google. Why not? Even if they start serving their ads via google.com, you can still block them on by URL-matching, or same-origin filters...