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

[–] [email protected] 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 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.