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.

  • Rolling Resistance@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    If it wasn’t for all these articles, I wouldn’t even know that something changed. Firefox + uBlock works the way it used to.

    • Metatronz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      What a manipulation tactic though. Phase in the change at different times for different users.

      Maybe one day they’ll have the ability to just roll out the shit internet for plebs and the shitter, but shinny, version for the rich.

      What if someone gets left behind in the great ad war? Lol. A lone user who has never seen an ad on the Internet ever.