• @Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    The thing that gets me is they think no one will ever find this stuff. There are hundreds of thousands of people (maybe more) who are actively looking ways to block ads and get around this behavior. There’s no way it’ll ever go unnoticed.

    • Natanael
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      12 years ago

      They could literally have used some variance in implementation, server side bandwidth limitations, etc, but THIS is just blatantly obvious

      • @Aux@lemmy.world
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        02 years ago

        I believe that Google is just trolling people real hard. There are much better ways to disable any adblocks, but they are not even trying.

          • @fossilesque@mander.xyz
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            02 years ago

            The world runs on the shoulders of disgruntled employees. This smells like a deliberate act backed up with a paper trail to protect the guy in charge of implementing it from taking the blame. But, I realise that also may be my imagination… It’s a compelling tale regardless.

            • Cosmic Cleric
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              02 years ago

              The world runs on the shoulders of disgruntled employees.

              That’s one hell of a phrase that should keep any CEO awake at night.