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[–] Meltrax 103 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is some ultimate scumbaggery.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This should be illegal, Firefox being their competition (tangentially)

[–] LufyCZ 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] UnculturedSwine 36 points 1 year ago

EU might hit them for it. I have no faith that the US government is going to do anything.

[–] Thermal_shocked 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if it's a case of malicious compliance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Let's not say it too loud for the sake of our mole(s)

[–] Aux -4 points 1 year 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.