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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 41 points 3 years ago (12 children)

Just means I'll have the shittiest Chromebook I can buy used, for access to the sites you just listed, and my Linux laptop for everything else. If their non-financial, non-commerce site won't let me in with my adblocking Linux machine, I just won't go there. There will be lots of site still, run by us, that don't do this shit, and they'll get my traffic.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    And I can bet that Google will spy on your home network from that shitty chromebook

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    They already do that from my Android phone, and I'm sure as hell not going Apple. Linux phones aren't there yet, maybe in a few years, but I'll still need an Android phone for the same reasons I'd need a Chromebok, bank apps will never support Linux phones. And yeah, like everybody said, VLANs. I already have one for untrusted IoT devices, I'll just spin up another for Chromebooks.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Not mine. I have a VLAN for that.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah VLANs seem like a viable option for the average user. ;-)

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    It's true, but you can say that about almost anything. For example, for the "average" user lemmy is confusing compared to reddit.

    Besides, I'm just talking about how I tackle diseases inside my network, not what the average user should do.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Just means I’ll have the shittiest Chromebook I can buy

    Google Exec: "But you did buy it, yes?"

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