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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
(stackdiary.com)
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Cloudflare is an exclusive walled garden that blocks a marginalized¹ segment of people from most of their sites.
① People whose ISP uses #CGNAT, Tor users, users with text browsers, beneficial bots (which serve humans), impaired people (who can’t solve CF’s CAPTCHAs), those who distrust a US corp to have visibility on the plaintext contents of every single packet including usernames and passwords, etc.