Aren’t there already laws that could prevent this new API thing? It seems that it is extremely intrusive into people’s private business. At this point, I think Google should be broken up in smaller pieces.
A little more on the Google DRM
Submitted 10 months ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to privacyguides@lemmy.one
https://adguard.com/en/blog/google-api-open-web-adblocking.html
Comments
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
iso@lemy.lol 10 months ago
Didn’t AdGuard adopted API changes before? Ironic.
Boozilla@lemmy.one 10 months ago
If you want to get away with something evil, hide it inside of something boring. That’s what they’re doing.
Navarian@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’ll preface this by saying I know I’m in the minority with this.
But all this will serve to do for me is stop me from using any websites or indeed browsers that utilise this. It will essentially just be lost traffic for them. However small of a drop in the pond that may be.
veloxy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think you underestimate the impact of this. Just a few situations I can think of:
Considering Chrome has such a large market share, sites will adopt it and people switch to Chrome because “it just works in Chrome”. So Chrome will gain even more market share and other browsers (that previously resisted) are forced to follow and implement it in order not to lose any market share.
peregus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think that you miss the most powerful point: Google will penalize in the searches all the websites that will not implement the new function, so every single business will implement it straight away!
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Aren’t there any laws that could prevent such new features that will clearly increase an already existing quasi monopole?
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
i don’t see Cloudflare collaborating on this one. They believe really strongly in the open web. That’s the whole reason they do what they do for free for so many sites.
Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I thought you were going to say something “controversial and brave” tbh.
rikudou@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Same here (well, I already use Firefox for the last decade or so). But as usual, people will choose whatever other people choose or whatever is the default and be fine with it.