Hacker News upset that Google is going to turn off ad blocking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 … Few mention complexity of the web; nobody points out that if it weren’t so insanely complicated, it wouldn’t require a huge industrial effort to build a browser, so there would be no problem.
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(I think it is bad to turn off ad blocking, and if this happens it will result in me using the web much less than I do today ... which is probably good in the end. But if you are going to solve the problem, solve the problem.)
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
they aren't disabling ad blocking, instead they're replacing the API used for ad blocking, forcing everyone to rewrite their ad blockers
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Replying to @tblodt
These things always happen one step at a time.
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