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dddddaviddddd on Aug 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

Main difference is that browser makers (Mozilla, Apple, Google for non-Google ads) are becoming hostile to ads and tracking rather than trying to be neutral.

bilbo0s on Aug 30, 2018 | [–]

>Google ?

If Google is not hostile to all ads, then they are not "becoming hostile to ads".

M2Ys4U on Aug 30, 2018 | [–]

Why is that a _bad_ thing?

dddddaviddddd on Aug 30, 2018 | [–]

It's a good thing! Browser makers being more adversarial will limit the ability of tracking and advertising to 'find new ways'

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