• kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    have you ever searched “ad blocker” on your browser of choice’s extension store and scrolled down? or had a cheap/free VPN that advertised ad blocking functionality?

    those. for some reason people install those. and they never get updates.

    (some of them are actual malware too)

    • PeachMan@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      Not sure what you’re on about, Google is absolutely capable of detecting if you’re using Ublock Origin, Piped, ReVanced, whatever. The question isn’t if they CAN break those things, it’s just if they WILL.

      And if they’re beta testing this system right now, I’d say it’s just a matter of time.

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        2 years ago

        Watching all this from the sidelines, I’m very pleased that I took the time to de-Google my critical daily services, already.

    • CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 years ago

      It drives me mad when I use PCs of friends and relatives and I see AdBlock Plus installed, but they still get ads and they never seem to stop and wonder why this “ad blocker” is not working! I do however enjoy their facial expressions when I install uBlock Origin for them and start refreshing pages.