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.

  • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Then they shouldn’t have subsidized the service to the point everyone is forced to use it through them.

    Even if it were reasonable to seek remuneration (which it isn’t in light of their being dicks with loss leadering), doing so by selling access to our subconscious by demanding we expose ourselves to mind control is abhorrent.