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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Master/slave was understandable, but c'mon, blacklist/whitelist? You can't convince me that has racist connotations to it; the black = bad, white = good thing has been around for an extremely long time. Quite honestly, it's very easy to guess where it might have come from: black is dark, darkness is where nasties hide. White is bright, like a bright light, which illuminates the darkness and allows you to see where it's safe.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or we can be happy they changed it to something easier to understand.

If you're angry about a word change, when it makes it easier to understand, you're probably racist.

I'm glad it's easier to understand, and has the added benefit of PoC feeling more inclusive.

You're angry because.. idk? You're racist? There's no other reason to be outraged.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not angry, I'm just confused TBH. It was never difficult to understand that a whitelist was good and a blacklist was bad. You whitelist good things, aka things you want, and you blacklist bad things, aka things you don't want. How is that confusing or difficult to understand?

Secondly, it's weird for you to jump to accusing someone of being angry and racist because they disagree with your stance. I can think it's weird and possibly virtue signalling that they'd change it from whitelist/blacklist to allowlist/blocklist. Like, how many people actually got upset about whitelist/blacklist?

It's like if I started getting mad at car people for shortening "transmission" to "trans" or "tr*nny". They're clearly talking about a car, not a person, so why do I care?

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How was white and black descriptive?

I remember making a Minecraft server in 2009 and not understanding what whitelist and blacklist meant.

Allow/Block makes sense. White/Black doesn't.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're fucking with me now, right? Had you never heard someone tell you that life isn't black-or-white? Had you never seen a switch use a black/white, opaque/clear, or smooth/textured to indicate on/off? The only way I could see blacklist/whitelist being confusing is if you're uncertain about the context that it's being used in, but allowlist/blocklist is going to be confusing in that regard too. What's being allowed? What's being blocked?

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Whatever you're putting in the allow list is being allowed.

Usernames, IPs, etc.

Whatever you're putting in the block list is being.. blocked.

English is easy. Fuck off.