I love unlock, don’t get me wrong, but why the hell isn't adblocking built into my browser? And disabling auto play for that matter.
The state of web browsers is absolute and pure insanity.
The state of web browsers is absolute and pure insanity.
Because the maker of your Web browser is funded by advertising money.
This a really interesting point I never considered, but Mozilla isn’t being paid by a ton of different advertisers to not implement blocking - are they? How would we know?
Side note, I would absolutely pay for a browser that rolled everything in without setting it up myself.
Any browser beside Chrome or Firefox seems to only be installed by power users, who also know how to install an adblocker.
To answer your question - it's because the major source of revenue for browser makers is search engines. Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. pay browser maker money to bundle their search engine in the browser, and also share a small percentage of revenue with them. Search engines make money from advertising. So obviously they discourage browser makers from including ad blocking tech in browsers. (Look at the money involved - Google Said to Pay Apple $15 Billion to Remain Default Search Engine on Safari in 2021 - https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-apple-default-sear... ... and you can understand why it is so difficult to say no to it).
Also this accounts a burner so I guess I do fall for the trap but downvote away if you like.
(And ABP isn't what it once was, anyway, that's for sure)
In the case of Brave[1] and Vivaldi[2], it is.
[1]: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022973471-Wha...
And absolutely insane is a dig at this distopia where we’re allowing advertising companies to drive the technology which would arguably be more valuable than currency.
But sure, off to Reddit I go, just because you don’t like the way I talk.
I’m all for data privacy and freedom of speech, but i also think we need to place revocable trust in other parties to curate our data in a way that improves signal to noise ratios while not impeding on actual freedoms (lest we revoke our trust).
But also browsers should just disable auto play videos they’re damn offensive.