In recent news, Google has put forth a proposal known as the "Web Environment Integrity Explainer", authored by four of its engineers. On the surface, it
Anyone that implements it I won’t use their content unless it’s absolutely necessary. I think stack exchange may be the only site that has enough pull for me to visit them anyway.
Any browser that gets around it I’ll use instead. I’m already using Brave, Firefox and Edge instead of chrome.
Really All this is going to do is create a opportunity for AI ad removal, Man in the middle rendering raster scraping the data removing anything that looks like an ad.
Really All this is going to do is create a opportunity for AI ad removal,
It’s worse than that. As it stands, I’m blocked from ~30+% of the web because of Cloudflare. Unjailing the content into archive.org’s #WaybackMachine is indispensable. From the article:
“Websites funded by ads require proof that their users are human and not bots”
I already lose copious access to content as a human being treated like a bot. #Google’s plan is to take the next #CAPTCHA extreme. It’s the wrong direction.
Robots work for the user, not against. I created a bot to find me a house because the real estate sites lacked the search criteria I needed. I scraped the sites & found the ideal house. This would be nearly impossible today & Google brings it closer to impossible.
That is a great idea for a browser extension. An AI module that hides ads and clicks x’s and generally fucks with their engagement numbers but don’t let any of it get to your eyeballs.
It’s just a paywall with extra steps.
Anyone that implements it I won’t use their content unless it’s absolutely necessary. I think stack exchange may be the only site that has enough pull for me to visit them anyway.
Any browser that gets around it I’ll use instead. I’m already using Brave, Firefox and Edge instead of chrome.
Really All this is going to do is create a opportunity for AI ad removal, Man in the middle rendering raster scraping the data removing anything that looks like an ad.
It’s worse than that. As it stands, I’m blocked from ~30+% of the web because of Cloudflare. Unjailing the content into archive.org’s #WaybackMachine is indispensable. From the article:
“Websites funded by ads require proof that their users are human and not bots”
I already lose copious access to content as a human being treated like a bot. #Google’s plan is to take the next #CAPTCHA extreme. It’s the wrong direction.
Robots work for the user, not against. I created a bot to find me a house because the real estate sites lacked the search criteria I needed. I scraped the sites & found the ideal house. This would be nearly impossible today & Google brings it closer to impossible.
That is a great idea for a browser extension. An AI module that hides ads and clicks x’s and generally fucks with their engagement numbers but don’t let any of it get to your eyeballs.
Here you go: https://adnauseam.io/
yeah, DRM is a harder beast for a video feed, but static webpages? I don’t see how they could actually stop you if you’re rendering to the screen.