Re: Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

From	Juergen Nieveler <Juergen.Nieveler@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.security.misc, comp.internet.services.google, comp.misc, alt.privacy
Subject	Re: Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently
Date	2019-01-28 08:01 +0100
Message-ID	<q2mcs4.d6g.1@nieveler.org> (permalink)
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On 27.01.2019 12:09, Huge wrote:
>> Those installing uMatrix or uBlockOrigin will naturally want to "allow"
>> both to access the API.  But if some other extension, that does not
>> need such access, asks to be granted, then the user has the choice of
>> denying such access.
> 
> And of course that works *so* well in all the other cases when something
> pops up. [User clicks 'Yes' without reading or understanding.]

Indeed, the concept of "informed consent" simply doesn't work with endusers.

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