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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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Losing your ad blocker on chrome is "just under" software designed to kill people? Lol really? Oh the oppression
Sure it won't kill people like programming drones, but it is still unethical and would affect ~5 billion people negatively.
Right, but you said "just under". There's a preeetty fuckin wide gap between blocking ad blockers and dropping bombs guy.
I'm not saying concerns aren't valid, I just took your comment to be calling it almost comparable to military software.
"..., it's just under..." means the same thing, but I think you mean "it's just under" as in "although, it's under" rather than "just" being a measurement?
Yeah not intending it as a measurement; this comes to mind in situations like this