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> it's not their job to curate what you see In this case why does the browser have a pop-up blocker? Or why does it warn about potentially malicious websites (
by Nextgrid 3y ago
> it's not their job to curate what you see
In this case why does the browser have a pop-up blocker? Or why does it warn about potentially malicious websites (via SafeBrowsing)?
If it's not their job to curate what you see then it should show you the raw unfiltered badness of the web and let you deal with it yourself.
- arp242 3y agoWhat a boring "gotcha". By that measure a browser should also allow any HTTPS certificate, self-signed or expired, and any other invalid certificate, and allow unrestricted unlimited access to all storage and all features. Oh no, that would be idiotic... Just as silly as conflating not implementing a technical feature or basic safety protections with "curation". Hey your email provider also shouldn't do curation either, then why does it have a spam filter?!?! Checkmate atheists!
- Nextgrid 3y agoI'm curious about where you draw the line between basic safety features/spam filtering and "curation" and the reasons behind that. Ad blockers just use a list of known malicious URLs/domains/CSS selectors and use that to block/hide elements. This is identical to Safe Browsing (preventing loading of known malicious domains) which you seem to be fine with and don't see as "curation".