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The Adblockalypse is coming (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] nonearther@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The main issue is that no-one in past, be it movie, music, or gaming industry, had the control which Google has with the web.

Web is 90% Chromium, Email is 60+% Gmail, Android is 70+% mobile worldwide, and Google already provides a lot of things like Google login, oAuth, etc. for free.

This means for a web dev, making a website WEI compatible shouldn't be much of a hassle, and if they protest, Google can totally twist their arms to get us way.

WEI is dangerous because who's behind it, not because what it is.

[โ€“] Rambi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not to mention AdSense and YouTube with whatever percentages they control of their respective markets. Google holds a lot of separate monopolies for just one company