• zecg@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win

    Fuck off with that defeatist shit Mozilla, don’t decide for us.

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      4 months ago

      Also I think in Gemini there’s not much advertisers can do to “try to bypass these countermeasures”.

      They could add Gemini support in Firefox. Or even roll out their own “small web”-style protocol for hypertext. Simply without the functionality advertisers use.

      With their resources it’d be a minor feature.

      The issue is that while somewhere they have some people actually making a browser, as an entity it’s a company making money on advertising. People deciding on directions use that as the main criterion.

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      4 months ago

      Deciding for stupid people is a heroic act on their behalf. They protect us ❤️