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The Adblockalypse is coming (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 55 points 3 years ago (1 child)

This is just more of the same. Every time some company thinks they've thrown enough money at the problem to DRM their way to success, somebody inevitably finds a fix, workaround, or bypass. Sometimes within a single day.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The main issue is that no-one in past, be it movie, music, or gaming industry, had the control which Google has with the web.

    Web is 90% Chromium, Email is 60+% Gmail, Android is 70+% mobile worldwide, and Google already provides a lot of things like Google login, oAuth, etc. for free.

    This means for a web dev, making a website WEI compatible shouldn't be much of a hassle, and if they protest, Google can totally twist their arms to get us way.

    WEI is dangerous because who's behind it, not because what it is.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Not to mention AdSense and YouTube with whatever percentages they control of their respective markets. Google holds a lot of separate monopolies for just one company

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