• Cheers@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Imagine you’re a builder and you build a store (website). People can come into your store through the door or window. WEI will make sure you come through the door just as the builder intended.

    At face value, that sounds fine, but now imagine that builder puts a maze (all of the ads littered on a webpage) on the other side of the door. It’s a pain in the ass to get through and someone (adblock) has told you about the window that lets you skip the maze. You can get what you want and the store gets to sell a thing. Everyone’s happy except the maze builder (Google), so they’re trying to force the entire world to go through the maze.

    • Fredselfish
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      1 year ago

      Wait Google can place ads on my website without my permission?

      • CallumWells
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        1 year ago

        You’re the builder, and thus the one who can choose to put a maze there or not.