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My assumption is that banning them outright will make it super obvious you can’t run adblock on chrome. With Manifest V3 limiting their capabilities but not get
by yakattak 3y ago
My assumption is that banning them outright will make it super obvious you can’t run adblock on chrome. With Manifest V3 limiting their capabilities but not getting rid of them, the layman user will still feel like they have adblock and aren’t likely to know it’s not as powerful as it was before.
- bentcorner 3y agoGoogle might be trying to have their cake and eat it too - hamstring adblocking enough that their sites and ad networks can work around it but other sites and ad networks will remain blocked.
- jdironman 3y agoKeep your friends close, your enemies' closer kind of thing.
- orangepurple 3y agoThis implies we are so stupid we won't realize we are seeing ads where we never saw them before.
- thesuperbigfrog 3y ago>> we won't realize we are seeing ads where we never saw them before. Ads are the new content. The killer app for LLMs is generating new and innovative ads that are entertaining and feel like content. Imagine fun games like "Avoid the Noid" (https://www.mobygames.com/game/1095/avoid-the-noid/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/1095/avoid-the-noid/), "Cool Spot" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spot), and "McKids" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids), but with modern graphics and sound and promoting the most annoying brands and products. Help people save money on their insurance by playing as the Geico lizard! Find out the dirt on used cars as the CarFax fox! Yesterday's annoying mascots are today's folk heroes.
- squidbeak 3y agoAds will never be the 'new content'. If I want to read a news story, or find some key information, do you really suppose I will appreciate being confronted with "Avoid the Noid" or other fatuous games?
- kjkjadksj 3y agoNews stories are often straight ads too, just quickly paraphrased retelling of a propaganda piece from the companies public relations department.