Npars01, 10 months ago

@nixCraft

I've stopped using certain web sites because of excessive & intrusive ads and shut off certain settings that enable ads & other pop-ups.

Not using Google or Chrome is coming soon.

Google investors are Saudi despots.

Coercive capitalism, public corruption, and captive consumer markets describe the oil kleptocracy of OPEC and #KochNetwork accurately.

ajsadauskas, 10 months ago

@nixCraft Oh, Google's not completely opposed to you getting rid of some of its ads...

...by paying $14.99 for a YouTube Premium subscription, and then forking out even more for a Google Workspace subscription, and buying the paid version of apps on the Google Play store.

ironman07882, 10 months ago

@nixCraft
Absolutely not surprised. Google's push to ensure it can monetize the web experience is one of the reasons I use Firefox.

ngo, 10 months ago

@nixCraft

Could do with some serious action from EU on this.

SChau, 10 months ago

@nixCraft No

iam, 10 months ago

@nixCraft I know I know, this might sound controversial, but I either mute the audio or turn to CandyCrush or Homescapes when a long ads starts kicking in.

BogDrakonov, 10 months ago

@nixCraft Once ad blockers are genuinely impossible to use, ads will become utterly insufferable.

evasb, 10 months ago

@nixCraft #Chromium should be not used by anyone that is worried about this proposition, and pressure Chromium-based browsers to use webkit or Gecko.

seeteegee, 10 months ago

@nixCraft Not at all. Maybe it's time to move from the web to something much simpler? #postweb supertxt.net

kkarhan, 10 months ago

@nixCraft The only valid move is to boycott that shit out of existance and refuse to open or use sites that implement it!

lumiworx, 10 months ago

@nixCraft ... Until I know where this proposal is heading, I'll continue running #Technitium locally on a physical #Fedora box and use FF and DDG.

Google is NOT a standards body, and it is high time someone made that perfectly clear. The target to stop abuses is and has always been at the server/source, and never the client side.

If there's a gunman atop a tower shooting the crowd below, you don't pass out Kevlar vests to everyone on the street. Their whole proposal is ludicrous.

MartinBe, 10 months ago

@nixCraft

NiemPseu, 10 months ago

@nixCraft Veiled DRM and the Threat to Open Web

mcn, 10 months ago

@nixCraft Firefox rulez!

yuliyan, 10 months ago

@nixCraft What a genius marketing move by #Mozilla. Now it's clear where all the money is going to.

GregDance, 10 months ago

@nixCraft

Everyone using Google Chrome or searches with them STOP DOING THAT NOW!!
#googlestrike! #stopgoogle

jtb, 10 months ago

@nixCraft Am I surprised that there is a scare story about the future? Not really. But Chromium is open source, so someone can and probably will fork it.
#drm ? #whatdrm? #chromium

gavinisdie, 10 months ago

I swear eventually companies will be able to pay Google extra for ads that essentially brick the site for a person until they purchase whatever is being advertised

xs4me2, 10 months ago

@nixCraft

Great, good reason to keep using Firefox!

dtwx, 10 months ago

@nixCraft seems like a win for adblockers to me!

rticks, 10 months ago

@nixCraft

#FuckSundarPuchai

MichaelLeRoi, 10 months ago

@nixCraft The only surprise is that they didn't do it sooner.

ElBe_Plaq, 10 months ago

@nixCraft Will the website check if the ads are visible? Couldn't you check with some kind of token from Google Ads telling the website it's a real ad?

alantrapulionis, 10 months ago

@nixCraft Yeah. What a great use of resources. A genuine inspiration, they are.

aapis, 10 months ago

@nixCraft the difficult solution to this problem is to refuse to use services that show ads at all (YouTube, Google search, Netflix, any news org, etc). They believe they are necessary services and that the ad revenue business model is smart business. Show them what their MBAs are actually worth, stop logging in. Maybe we can call it a strike.