And imagine that Walton had found not just a messy store, but an exec running a criminal scheme, Google or Meta style

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And the people at the top either don't care, or find that "safety" works in the opposite direction to what they want.

If Sam Walton had walked into a dirty, disorganized Walmart, stuff would have been fixed fast, whatever the VPs said. Zuckerberg and Pichai are all "meh" about high-profile crimes.

update: I think I fixed it, enterprise policies to the rescue -- a fairly simple #security / #privacy protection to block the risky search ad clicks without breaking the ads on legit sites

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Ideally you would be able to keep only legit ads by default—with user's GPC choice applied—but for now that's hard to set up, so IT depts. have to be able to educate users when it's a good idea to turn off uBO for a site and when it's not.

(feature request: check ads.txt, unblock if it's legit) 3/3

If you're going to run a school or public computer, you need to make sure the Google Search ads aren't showing up or at least are not clickable. Right now uBlock Origin will do that reliably but search ads are out of scope for Privacy Badger blog.zgp.org/winners-don-... 2/3

As each Big Tech switches away from high-growth value-extractive mode to earning more like a normal legacy IT company, that means more growth opportunities for the firms that are now on the losing end of their anticompetitive tricks. Total impact on an index fund investor will be somewhat positive