Yes it does but we can’t just sit back and give up because it’s more convenient.

Agreed, but we know that republicans would have been crowing how Trump wouldn’t have allowed this to happen if he lost the last election, so it’s only fair to run their own play against them now.

They dont

So train the AI to recognize and respond to obfuscation attempts. Hell, make the web whitelist only. People subscribe to the vetted whitelists and anything sus gets blocked by default.

“Why did we teach peasants to read? We have AI to do that now.”

“Coming soon…”

Antiviruses have been doing this for years.

That was an ad campaign. Actual people figure out pretty quickly it’s basically honey with crypto in a trench coat.

It’s not so bad. There’s helpful walkthroughs all over the place, like this one

When will marketing people figure out our generation views ads as hostile, non-consensual, and unwanted? They are a negative way to introduce us to your product/service. I actively avoid things with obnoxious ads. Native, old spice, liberty mutual, all of those brands the first thing that comes to mind is the negative experience of an invasive advertisement I never fucking asked for.

Change the icon on the desktop to the chrome pinwheel and they’ll never know the difference.

Couldn’t use just set the user agent?

Brave has a certain distasteful reputation earned by repeated unethical fuckery. If you are fine with what brave does, you have no reason to avoid chrome in the first place.

Firefox has webserial support now. I no longer need anything chromium. Let them rot.

Fine. I propose we create a proxy for hostile web browsers. Install the proxy on your device to run locally. Browser tells proxy to fetch the page. Proxy unfucks it before handing it over to the browser. Someone likely already has something like this out there somewhere.

If they want to turn this into an arms race they absolutely will lose.

Marketing people are dumb. Their entire major is about the misrepresentation statistical data. Convince the guy paying you the ads work and wont doesn’t matter if they don’t.

If you find out about something through YouTube ad, that’s all the proof you need that it’s a scam

It was incredibly tonedeaf. AI is not what people want, Tim.

Translation: Microsoft broke something and can’t figure out how to fix it so will now let you turn it off.

Yes.

Because if there’s no other option available, that’s what’s going to happen. When they can’t afford the lovely little distractions anymore they will grab a fucking brick.