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We need to remodulate the phasers (feddit.de)
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[–] 130 points 2 years ago (20 children)

This joke is backwards.

YouTube is the one trying to kill an infinitely adaptable adversary they stand no chance of defeating.

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

    They are "remodulating" chrome. If you continue to use chrome and any browser based on it, you might soon realize that adblocking doesn't work anymore, because filtering support was neutered and you no longer will be able to switch to Firefox, as they will outright block it as it allows to block ads.

    It is important to use Firefox now to make sure sites won't start blocking it.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    If YouTube ever blocks Firefox alphabet will finally be broken up.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Wanna bet? There are ways to frog in a boiling pot this. And chrome isn't the only browser that will support blocking Firefox. (They'll argue Chromium is not Google, only Chrome).

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    That's a fig leaf. US courts might agree with that argument, but European courts will see that it all is monopolistic practices to support their ad business. YouTube itself can't survive market dominance without it's preferential deals with it's parent company's hosting and ads. Ask viemo how using cloud hosting to serve video and third party ads works out. It would be suicidal. The truth is they ALREADY should be broken up.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Google likely will be one of the last ones to do it (exactly so it will be hard to to put them in court). I already see Microsoft (surprise!) do this and asking to use Chrome or Edge.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you've seen Star Trek, you know that the humans are the real infinitely adaptable adversary that the Borg stand no chance of defeating

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You say that but Google is working on shoving a drm scheme into Chrome that'd keep you from being able to modify sites (e.g. ad and script blocking) and, due to the sheer market share that chrome and Chromium-based browsers have, Google can kinda just do whatever they want. Of course, it's ultimately up to the site owners to implement it, but you know probably 90% of sites will use it.

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

    You say that like the federation doesn't win every single time. Humans are more adaptable than the borg.

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