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seasonone@opidea.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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In recent news, Google has put forth a proposal known as the "Web Environment Integrity Explainer", authored by four of its engineers. On the surface, it
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    Google executives want this, NOT the engineers.

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      Their engineers are super fucking shady too. For example, the issies with the WebHID “browser” APIs

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        And you think it was the engineer’s idea to do that?

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          There’s literally a comment from an Google engineer, about WebHID saying that they had engineers “motivated to execute on” as part of their reasoning for telling others to go fuck themselves.

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      They put their name on it. I hope it was monetary worth it because the public should not cut them any slack.

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