• HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Because it is still unclear if this is an official project requested by Google or just some engineers working alone until Google adopts the project.

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      1 year ago

      The chances that a swashbuckling crew of rogue engineers organized a secret skunkworks project to implement their heartfelt, idealistic vision of an adblocker free web are… low.

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        1 year ago

        This is exactly something an engineer who works at Google would want to work on, finding new ways to enrich Google is literally their job and there would be great personal benefit from coming up with the best way to implement this DRM crap for profit