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> other than the most up to date Chrome. Yes, I'm sure Google cares a great deal about losing 17% [1] of its market share, or even less considering how many pe
by thefurdrake 3y ago
> other than the most up to date Chrome.
Yes, I'm sure Google cares a great deal about losing 17% [1] of its market share, or even less considering how many people with weak spines will switch if they're denied access to something based on browser and never look back.
I'm sure Google won't do something malicious like mandating anyone using google's adtech to implement this to ensure "integrity" of clickthroughs.
I'm sure Google won't use its market dominance to require this feature for every one of its products and intentionally cripple other browsers, as that's definitely not something they've done before and would be totally unprecedented in the modern tech industry.
F Google.
[1] https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/ https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/
- j0hnyl 3y agoWEI is a tool for publishers. Mandating that publishers use it to qualify for google ads will be completely suicidal for google. Most folks access google ad demand through resellers.
- nullc 3y agoMandate? How about just compensating them differential based on the assumed WEI vs non-WEI clickfraud rates?
- j0hnyl 3y agoThen they will only implement for those impressions/clicks, the same way they switch around between a handful of anti-bot vendors today, because none of them have alignment. Edit: Also not sure if WEI spec only calls for a page level implementation, but if not then this will just be implemented inside ad frames and publishers won't need to touch it. I think HN is overthinking this the same way everyone freaked out about AMP, the impact of which is completely negligible a couple years later.