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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 19:54:05 JST Dan Gillmor

   Google is neutering (among other things) the most effective web spyware blocker. That tells you so much about the motives of a company that once promised to not be evil. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/

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     Cabbidges (thedailyburble@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:29:09 JST Cabbidges

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     @dangillmor Google, like everyone else, collected more data than they can sell. AI isn't going to help, the storage costs are huge, the data is old, the cost of curating and sifting, storage aside are stupendous.
     Fresh data is still (just about) valuable, youbet they don't want adblockers.
     Ads are the only market they have for their data now. Nobody else wants it, and only the fresh stuff counts for targetted ads. I don't want the same stuff I wanted a month ago, let alone a year ago.