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Yeah, there was some blowback to make the big G reconsider, but don't you worry. I'm sure they're cooking up something similarly nefarious to accomplish their g
by VyseofArcadia 4y ago
Yeah, there was some blowback to make the big G reconsider, but don't you worry. I'm sure they're cooking up something similarly nefarious to accomplish their goal.
Google is the world's biggest ad company. Sufficiently few people use ad blocking that I don't think it's an existential threat, but as long as the shareholders demand infinite growth, getting rid of ad blocking will be seductive to Google.
- jjoonathan 4y agoThe goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. - Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine Ditto for extensible browsers.
- freedude 4y agoI feel like they lost me when they got rid of "Don't be Evil" as their motto. I realized their slide down the slippery slope was well underway.