Google will soon block battery-draining ads from loading in Chrome (theverge.com) 4 points by cameronbrown 6y ago ↗ HN
[–] bryanrasmussen 6y ago ↗ I mean that's good and all but if you have battery draining ads being blocked by Google you are being blocked by a competitor and that seems like something someone would want to sue for, and what's more something I think you would win a lot for.
[–] grishka 6y ago ↗ I still don't understand who thought that allowing ads to run arbitrary code in the first place was a good idea. [–] q92z8oeif 6y ago ↗ Advertising companies, like google. [–] grishka 6y ago ↗ What problems does that solve that displaying an image (possibly animated gif) that links somewhere would have?
[–] q92z8oeif 6y ago ↗ Advertising companies, like google. [–] grishka 6y ago ↗ What problems does that solve that displaying an image (possibly animated gif) that links somewhere would have?
[–] grishka 6y ago ↗ What problems does that solve that displaying an image (possibly animated gif) that links somewhere would have?
[–] q92z8oeif 6y ago ↗ in other news:local drug dealer will prevent competing gangs from selling drugs in their turf.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 25.4 ms ] threadlocal drug dealer will prevent competing gangs from selling drugs in their turf.