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

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.internet.services.google, comp.security.misc, comp.misc
Subject	Re: Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently
Date	2019-02-18 11:35 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
Message-ID	<gcvjkrFjomvU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2019-02-18, Pabst Blue Ribbon <pabst@blue.ribbon> wrote:
> tom <tom@0.0.0.0> wrote:
>> On 26 Jan 2019 10:54:20 GMT
>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> Get a PiHole.
>> No, stop using Chrome and any other google products and services
>> 
>
> Well, actually, it's not entirely Google product. It's based on Chromium,
> which is "an entirely free and open-source software project. The
> Google-authored portion is released under the BSD license.[9] Other parts
> are subject to a variety of licenses, including MIT, LGPL, Ms-PL, and an
> MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license.[10]"
>
><https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)>

And even if it were, the point is dumb, since Google isn't the only
company spying on you. Only four of the top blocked domains on my
PiHole (using the default blocklists) belong to Google. The other
six are other companies, so "stopping using Chrome" just gives
you a false sense of security.


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