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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This joke is backwards.

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

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're talking about computers, not leaves

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

computer TURN OFF THAT NOISE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sounds like websites should subsidize firefox users by serving MORE ads to chrome users.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 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

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

Sounds like a human wrote that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

God damn right

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank god for firefox!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Reverse the polarity, Geordi!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Man, what kind of universe am I in where a Wolf 359-truther is getting favorites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, I don't know enough about that fan theory to say I believe it or not but I will say no matter what, humans still stopped the Borg cube. Otherwise Earth would have gotten assimilated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You mean "The Borg" figuratively