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Oh hey, now my 20 background tabs can cost me money, that's useful. Will they show a ($) icon like they currently show a "playing sound" icon?
by JulianMorrison 6y ago
Oh hey, now my 20 background tabs can cost me money, that's useful. Will they show a ($) icon like they currently show a "playing sound" icon?
- pmontra 6y agoNot only that. Am I going to pay twice if I reload the page / close and reopen the browser / reboot the computer / view the same article in another browser or my phone / read it again tomorrow / etc?
- pc86 6y agoRest assured it will be whatever is most expensive for you. The idea that an HTML tag can cost someone money without explicit approval every single time is ludicrous.
- JulianMorrison 6y agoGiven that the implementation seems to be "constant drain of money per time open" then reading it twice costs twice, and the only way to read at your leisure without throwing away money is to paste the text into Notepad.
- Spivak 6y agoI expect a browser extension to emerge immediately that transparently clones pages and views them locally.
- JulianMorrison 6y agoThat won't necessarily help if there's still a "bleed money to XYZ" HTML tag in there.
- DocTomoe 6y agoYou mean a piece of text that is easily filtered out?
- pmontra 6y agoTalking to a friend of mine a few days ago. He develops with Flutter for Android and iOS. He told me that (almost) the same code can render to the web as pixels in a canvas tag. I didn't investigate the details (copy and paste, etc) but it's another step toward full black boxes that will do whatever they want, without any chances of blocking some parts of them.
- JulianMorrison 6y agoAs easy to filter out as adverts. Don't suppose that they won't use all the same tricks to inject it after the fact, or from obfuscation.