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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The only benefit I can see to users is it could eliminate captchas

#CAPTCHA elimination is not a benefit. The CAPTCHA motive of separating humans from bots is responsible for killing beneficial bots. The only good thing about it is humans get fed-up with CAPTCHAs and the captcha-pushers lose human traffic. That backlash is a good thing™. Remove that backlash and beneficial bots are defeated on a much larger scale.