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Another example of advertising corrupting ad supported media. Chrome runs on individually-owned computers. Ads consume those individuals' resources, storage spa

Another example of advertising corrupting ad supported media. Chrome runs on individually-owned computers. Ads consume those individuals' resources, storage space, CPU (in the case of ads that use JavaScript) and network bandwidth. Individuals should have the choice of allowing some outside entity using their resources. In this, we see why web advertising is so alluring to corporations: it uses other peoples' resources. Web advertising is cheaper because of this.

Arnt 2y ago
It doesn't seem to be about ads at all, AFAICT. https://textslashplain.com/2024/03/07/browser-extensions-powerful-and-potentially-dangerous/ https://textslashplain.com/2024/03/07/browser-extensions-pow...
- lioeters 2y ago
  > the Chrome team has tried to reduce the potential for abuse in the new “Manifest V3” system, but pundits and others have popularized elaborate conspiracy theories that this was just a way for Google to crack down on adblockers for their own business interests. > (This is an especially silly claim, since [Google ads are trivially blockable in the new system](https://textslashplain.com/2024/10/13/content-blocking-in-manifest-v3/ https://textslashplain.com/2024/10/13/content-blocking-in-ma...).)
  - lioeters 2y ago
    ..I was just quoting the article, I don't necessarily agree with their opinion.
    - Arnt 2y ago
      Are you reacting to your downvote(s)? That's just driveby downvotes from google haters, nothing substantive.
supertrope 2y ago
The medium is the message.