In the desktop version of chrome we can add the Adblock extension in order to prevent ads on YouTube etc. Why would Google allow an app like this in their Chrome Web Store because this would reduce revenue from youtube ads? What am I missing?
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You have a right to stop anyone from walking in the front door of your home. Similarly, you have a right to say who may converse with your computer. Ad block is a half ass way to make a white list firewall easy.
I use a whitelist firewall. Based on my dropped traffic logs, for every site I allow there are between a half to two dozen I block.
So for every person that you are aware of that visits your digital home, they allow around 6-24 other people inside to snoop around and do whatever they want on your computer. Maybe this is why you see X article followed by Y video, and suddenly find yourself purchasing Z item when you had other plans for your time. Who knows….unless you only let the people you intended into your house. At least you know who you’re being influenced by then. The responsibility for control is your own. That is why.
Because reception of advertising is still a choice all around the world and legally protected. That’s why you can turn of sound when an advertisement is playing on television.
And that is why is important to be politically involved person . People’s rights are fragile thing, they come from somewhere.
Because that would be a surefire way of driving out all of their even remotely tech-savvy users. People can always use Firefox, Opera, Edge or whathaveyou if Google decides to make their own product awful to use.
1. Most people don’t use it.
2. If they ban it, another will spring up in its place.
3. The people running AdBlock probably stopped using Chrome anyway.
4. There might be legal reasons why they can’t.
5. Could generate negative PR.
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