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> Why wouldn’t people just use an adblocker st this point? Because once Google ships their built-in adblocker in Chrome, they plan to start putting up paywalls
by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Why wouldn’t people just use an adblocker st this point?
Because once Google ships their built-in adblocker in Chrome, they plan to start putting up paywalls for users that are using other adblockers (but only on the sites where Chrome itself is not blocking ads). They've made this pretty clear in their communications about the whole thing if you read them carefully.
- kodablah 9y agoCan you show me where this is pretty clear? Not completely doubting you, but I am a bit skeptical that they would get into the cat-and-mouse game of ad blocker detection.
- bzbarsky 9y agoSee the bit about "Funding Choices" at https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-better-web-everyone/ https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-bett... and the documentation for that at https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7362965?hl=en https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7362965?hl=... [Edit: I guess https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7074355?hl=en&ref_topic=7074184 https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7074355?hl=... is a better toplevel summary of what "Funding Choices" is about.]