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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
(stackdiary.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'm not even upset. Yeah, it's finally clear that it's not our late 90s and early 00s Web anymore.
So what? What it's magic was based on wasn't so technologically or computationally complex, FFS. There's been plenty of hypertext systems, some distributed. There are some hobbyist ones now, like Gemini again.
I'm looking forward to the niche being filled by better solutions, made after the experience of WWW as it was. It's amazingly cool.