Ad blocking happens on your own computer, which you are authorised to make changes to. But simulating a click, therefore making an entry in another person's computer is what makes it unlawful.
I sent a get request. If you put something in your database that's on you.
Could we all be less eager to be the devil's advocate?
"Chug your mandatory mountain dew in order to continue"
Yes but technically you are not making an entry in someone's database; you merely send a request and it is not your problem that the remote computer misinterpreted this as displaying an interest in an ad. Remote server doesn't use any password, SMS confirmation or similar measure to restrict the users that are authorized to send requests so sending it sould be 100% legal.
But as a proverb says, "the law is like a drawbar, you can bend it as you like".
I had the same question. I don't wanna your tracking cokies and I don't wanna you draw strange pictures on my computer to fingerprint me. But when I click your link in backround thats not ok.
> But when I click your link in backround thats not ok.
Why not?
If you don't want bots clicking on your link you should put a captcha on it. If your link is publicly accessible, my background click is authorized by consequence.
Unfortunately the "open"AI effect is starting to show in other labs as well. DeepMind recently announced a min 6months delay in publishing their SotA research, to give them a market advantage. I get it, but it's sad that it's happening.
The good thing is that there are a lot of companies out there that want to make a name for themselves. Mistral started like that with Apache 2.0 models, now ds w/ MIT models, and so on. And if the past year is a good indicator, it seems that closed SotA to open close-to-SotA is 6-3 months. So that's good.
I also find interesting LeCun's take that "there is no closed source moat, or not for long". In a podcast he went into detail on this, saying that "people move companies, and people talk". If someone finds some secret sauce, the ideas will move around and other labs will catch up quickly. So there's some hope.
Grimes isn’t a DJ she’s a self-admitted meth user who diddles around with a lot of hardware most people can’t afford in the first place and the results appeal to a very minor market (as evidenced by being dropped by her label and no critically or market acclaimed releases in 10 years or so).
Grimes is a performance artist who dabbled in music. She’s not a musician. Imogen Heap is a musician.
Btw: The "Twitter to Nitter" browser extension is amazing if you occasionally still want to view a tweet, but don't want to connect to Twitter servers.
I think where this will fall on deaf ears is due to its branding.
~Europe's~ America's Digital Markets Act might work better with this administration, irrespective of how good or bad the content contained within it is.
In terms of what to focus your efforts on, this can be re-evaluated in a few years time when staff will actually dig in, beyond the optics.
I built something very similar to this too, but in Go. My motivation was that running Pi Hole was just way over complicated for something that should be simple and light weight.
* Fetches block lists every 6 hours
* Gets DNS requests over DoH then serves as DNS over the VPN.
* A single Go binary, so it's exceptionally easy to run.
It was super interesting to play around and get working as a side project, and as a plus debugging deadlocks in a DNS application is always fun /s
