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And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Web 3.0 - users, kindly go fuck yourselves p.s. pay us subscription money and view lots of ads

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I doubt it's the engineers.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can someone explain how the server is going to know whether or not the client browser is showing the ad? A stealthy browser would say, "hey yeah send that ad so I can render it to the user" and the server says, "yeah ok" and then . How is the server going to know whether the ad is displayed or not? Don't current gen adblockers not even retrieve the asset? If the asset was retrieved but not displayed, how (if even) can this be monitored?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ditched Chrome about a year ago for Edge and just recently switched to Firefox, shouldn't really be concerning as long as there are alternatives.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear I was just thinking of this today as the next step in this shitshow

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