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Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?
Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?
Ah, so effectively the standard installation. Alright, thanks!
Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn’t seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?
I’d imagine if, say Signal, refuses to comply and gets banned from the EU, one could always use a VPN. I think that nothing short of either a full global ban or implementing a version of The Great Wall of China would allow these ridiculous laws to be enforced. Even then, there will always be ways around it for those willing to go the extra mile.
Honestly, they could at least wait and see what happens in the UK before proposing something similar. They literally have a free guinea pig next door.
It’s such a shame though, since as far as I know, the EU have had such an amazing track record. I’d expect no less from big tech, but not the EU.
I wish people who proposes laws and regulations that violates human rights with provable intent to do just that would be fined or imprisoned.
Are adblockers even illegal? I didn’t think it was.
I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.
Don’t forget about malvertising, that’s probably a more imminent danger. If Google and other ad companies don’t give enough of a shit about user to actually filter out malware ads, why should I give enough of a shit about their revenue to not use uBO?
Is GrapheneOS affected?
This is free and pretty effective advertising for Telegram, really.
That’s one thing, but I think regurgitating it and claiming it as your own is a completely different thing.