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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
(stackdiary.com)
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It is indeed another attack on #openData principles.
Google’s move makes the fight much more uphill for freedom fighters. The real problem is the masses of pawns who fail to vote with their feet. Some of them voted with their feet merely because CAPTCHA is inconvenient. Eliminating the CAPTCHA puts these #tyrannyOfConvenience users on the wrong side of the fight.