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I have a pro-Google stance, but I usually wouldn't talk about it on HN because people just love to assume the worst about Google and anyone defending them just
by gman83 7y ago
I have a pro-Google stance, but I usually wouldn't talk about it on HN because people just love to assume the worst about Google and anyone defending them just gets attacked. Personally, I think that Google's pushing websites to use HTTPS has done more to improve privacy than anything else I can think of in the last decade.
- craftinator 7y agoHTTPS is a great thing for privacy, but Google was just one of many doing that pushing! Personal attacks aside, I think it's plain now how evil the management culture there is. I have friends who work there, and they concur that the evilness flows down from the top. It's hard to defend that evilness, which I imagine is why you get so much grief.
- donmcronald 7y ago- HTTPS eliminates proxy based ad blocking. - DoH eliminates DNS based ad blocking. - eSNI eliminates the last network level option for host based ad blocking. - CDNs eliminate IP based ad blocking. - Chrome eliminates browser based ad blocking. IMHO they're securing the web _against_ us, not _for_ us.