• Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are you making the argument that ad blocking software is the reason for companies aggressively mining user data?

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      1 year ago

      I’m arguing that add blockers are causing companies like Google to fight ad blockers. They aggressively mine data because it’s profitable to target ads with it.

      If millions of people didn’t use ad blockers there wouldn’t be much of a reason for them to spend engineering dollars on Web Identity DRM tools to attempt to prevent changes to web pages by blockers.