[drekipus]

> Companies don't make products out of the goodness of their hearts, they create products to make money.

Yes, precisely the point. This is to make money from you.

It would be much better if companies could make worthwhile services that we have a choice in supporting ( with our wallets by Buying products)

But there's a limited choice we have when chrome is defacto, from one company, that shove ads down our throats and gets paid for it.

Your grandma, mother or wife, aren't going to install adblockers. She'll get Ashley Madison ads whether she agrees to it or not, because she lingered a little too long on a erotic social media post, etc.

I think we all wish that advertising wasn't the product offered, and being gaslit into believing that other people want this.

[superfrank]

How is anything you said different than what we have right now?

The point of my post isn't that advertising is good, it's that people are making a big deal over this and I don't really understand how this is worse than what is already out there.

[TechBro8615]

This is a defeatist attitude. Just because the status quo is hostile to user privacy does not mean it has to continue to be that way. Other browsers are trying to fix the problem, while Google is trying to preserve it.

[drekipus]

I don't think there is a "big deal".

people didn't like the original version and people don't like this "new and improved" approach. it's the same as what's already out there.

Frankly i'd be more in favour of people making a bigger deal out of it.

[austhrow743]

What's already out there is largely blockable. This being baked in to the browser makes it seem like it wont be.

[fomine3]

Agree. Moreover, natural alternative is fingerprinting, that's harder to opt out than 3PC or FLoC.