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What is mediocre about it? What would be an example of a good browser, and what are the differences?

That’s what I said. AI haters are attacking, and he was defending against them, telling them to look in a mirror

It’s not a matter of technical implementation, but a procedural one. It was never a secret, it was just too expensive and impractical to do. If you changed how you implement ads every single day, the ad blockers would have to change their rules every day. Just keep going forever, and eventually the adblockers won’t have the resources to keep up.

It’s like if a food truck driver was trying to operate without a permit. If they sat in the same spot every day, officials would see them and easily catch them. If they moved to different apots around town every day and repainted their truck, they could evade officials. That’s not a secret, it’s just that it’s more work than it’s worth. While not a great analogy for many reasons, the idea is that it was never a secret how to get past ad blockers. It was just never worth the money. You’d spend more money implementing the evasion than you’d get back from the ad revenue.

At this point yhey are probably using AI to do the job of adjusting ad formats, so humans especially couldn’t keep up. Perhaps AI could be used to counteract it, but that’s expensive to setup and keep running. A free software obviously can’t aford that.

Sure, they could have been silent about it, but they would still get reports about missed ads. There would be enough hubbub online they’d eventually have to address. Maybe this way they can use the attenion to get more contributors

I’m not sure you understood. That quote is defending against AI haters

What stand does he take? “Don’t use AI”? How does he enforce that? He is working with volunteers, so it’s not like he can cut their pay

Companies absolutely can pay people solely to combat ad blockers. That will always win. Facebook doesn’t have a “system” other than always changing their system. Any company can constantly change how they display ads. The ad blockers are just always playing catch up until the corporation exhausts the volunteers energy.

If the solution is to get new volunteers to keep up the work, why don’t we have people willing to take on that role? Most people that have the know how arent using facebook anyway, so there’s no motivation from them.

Without legislature to enforce some rules on corporations, the ones with the money will always win.

You don’t have to look forward to that. We are enjoying it already. It’s great not having to wait on Rockstar to enjoy not playing their games

sensationalized headlines aren’t new. If anything they’re more important now than ever

It’s a human thing, above all else. If they wanted logical reasonable discussion, they should talk to robots. Except that’s the thing they hate

how long could the queue be? If someone can’t wait 60 seconds for the queue, but can take the 8 seconds to ask if it’s about X incident. I do imagine it will be smart enough to check their approximate location before giving the prompt

He asked for a lawyer several times

Lmao, they are quite literally saying it is the suffering peoples fault. Evil supervillains literally find and abuse any leverage they can get to make people work for them, depriving them of any other option. That’s why they’re supervillains to begin with.

Per the vault warden release notes:

We strongly advice to update as soon as possible.

With the vulnerabilities being patched these days, it seems ill asvised to disable automatic updates for something as critical as a password manager.