• kautau@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Except that the delay and ad blocker check is literally in the JavaScript code, you can see it.

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      11 months ago

      Indeed, but google can just transmit different javascript to different users/browsers/regions etc. It can be decided by a whim and noone would know except some coders at google

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        Except everyone would know. Multiple people across the globe testing different browsers have looked at the same JavaScript code that is being sent to the browser. The check is there, client-side, google isn’t sending a different JavaScript payload for different browsers. Like you said, they could, but that’s not how it currently functions