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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other than google itself, why would any website want to do such a thing

Web devs can be pretty lazy and only want to support Chrome anyway. If Chrome is the only browser offering certain features ("proof" that user is human, potentially getting rid of adblockers altogether, etc), that's a good excuse to finally just stop supporting Firefox and Safari.

[โ€“] Ace_of_spades 3 points 1 year ago

Didn't Microsoft try and do this with Silverlight back in the day?