[treebeard901]

Forcing advertisements on everyone is about so much more than money.

It is about money too obviously. I just think the general public is unaware what ads and ad network control over your online experience actually can accomplish.

After seeing aspects of it weaponized against me, the impact it has on someone unaware of the technology and psychology involved honestly seems like a danger to the public itself.

This may sound extreme if you have not experienced it.

[chii]

So what is the exact impact? I keep hearing claims that advertising is bad, but never an actual example of an impact - something concrete.

Ads to me are merely a nuisance, and annoys me, rather than impact me in any dangerous way. Of course, i will do my utmost to remove it from my life, but i cannot see it be called a danger to the public. Calling it such will actually diminish the importance of other public dangers, such as lobbying, monopolistic corporations etc.

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You mean public harm other than tracking you across the entire web, profiling your personality, adservers getting hacked and serving malware, taking up cpu cycles and memory, stealing your attention which are experiences which are life?

[hereme888]

Like CIA-funded propaganda for political outcomes?

[raxxorraxor]

I remember people arguing that manifest v3 would be a security improvement.

Disregarding reality, this is already quite subjective and depends if you trust sites more than your browser addons.

Tracking doesn't seem to be a relevant threat to those that defend this "evolution".

Also disregarded is the shitty situation of mobile OS that disempower otherwise quite powerful devices that Google would like to extend to web browsers.

Yes, you can fully construct a hypothetical situation where manifest v3 can be an improvement. Just like chastity belts shield your from STDs.

The same bunch of bullshit can be extended to ideas about "web integrity". I think it is time that people stop being idiots about it.