Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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.

    • Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I love Librewolf, I just can’t work for hours using a browser that has dark mode disabled in order to preserve its privacy features.

      • zingo@lemmy.caEnglish
        51·
        11 months ago

        Well some sacrifices has to be done.

        I use an add on called “Dark background, white text” or something like that. Less bloated than Dark Reader.

        Has to be somewhat usable while privacy oriented.