Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

  • troglodytis@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Well, this way I got to see it. Thanks to you. Thanks.

    Luckily for me YT hosts all the crap

    Edit: Billions of years ago stars exploded. So today while waiting in line at the DMV I got to have an “awww” moment when someone I don’t know posted a link, to a video of other people I don’t know enjoying their dog, as an example of useless crap that a computer company hosts on its servers. Stars exploded. And here we are.

    Life is wild, man