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Frohd Bek
@GGrofit
Replying to
@0xstella
lmao remember when Google used Chrome to do exactly the same thing several times for exactly the same reason and using exactly the same rationale
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Frohd Bek
@GGrofit
Replying to
@GGrofit
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@0xstella
"we're saving you from all the bad advertisers out there who are completely unlike us in respect for users (and also coincidentally do not provide us with huge stacks of cash)"
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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
Replying to
@GGrofit
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@0xstella
They didn't really do anything with that because they were scared of anti-trust action if they started blocking ads on sites with ads hurting usability. They added a content filtering engine to Chromium and distributed EasyList in an optimized form but.. it's not really used.
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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
Replying to
@DanielMicay
@GGrofit
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@0xstella
The filter lists block their own ads too. The concept was that it would get applied to sites with invasive ads (in terms of usability and performance, not privacy) until they fixed the problem and appealed. As far as I know this never actually happened and it was an empty threat.
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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
Replying to
@GGrofit
and
@0xstella
They likely use it for sites blocked by Safe Browsing for distributing malware, etc. but I haven't seen it get used in any case based on the intrusive ads policy they proposed and were supposedly going to be enforcing. It's a punishment on top of Safe Browsing warnings AFAICT.
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