Google wants to kill open Web under the guise of making it safer (adguard.com)

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A group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?

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[-] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

No doubt, Google wants to be the only gateway to the web and control it.

"He who controls information controls the world"

Tom Clancy

[-] MrZigZag@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Google may be gunning for the post office next...

When you control the mail, you control information.

Newman

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