As an aside, anyone know why both of the major adblockers have an unrelated adblocker with the same name? (AdBlock/AdBlock Plus, uBlock/uBlock Origin.) Who thought this was a good idea?
What ads? I haven't seen an ad in many moons thanks to uBlock Origin and other creative software hacks. uBlock also just released its experimental filter which fools the Javascript on sites serving up ads. Works a charm. Recommended.
Wait, do you use AdBlock Plus AND uBlock Origin at the same time? That might be your problem - when I run uBlock Origin alone it blocks all those Google search ads.
AdBlock Plus has a program where they allow companies to buy spots on their ad whitelist, and I imagine that's interfering with uBlock Origin's more absolutist stance.
Hmm. Maybe I should try uBlock. I usually don't like adblockers -- both on principle, because I believe in paying for what I consume, and because they tend to subtly break a website and cause hours of headaches at least once a year -- but I don't like feeding the beast either. I'll look into this.
Makes me wonder, there might not even be an malicious software with the extension. Google just wants us to look for ads so it boots the extension from the store. Even with it disabled, I haven't had any ads in YT yet, so I hope something, somewhere is still blocking them lol. Not gonna remove it from the extensions, hoping it somewhat still working in the background, while Chrome disabled it already. My adblocker of choice is AdGuard, wonder if it does something with YT or not.
I have not even seen this in real because I use startpage and duckduckgo on top of ublock that blocks google ads anyway. Its strage to me that not everyone just blocks all ads.
I'm not that opposed to ads, but browsing without blocker frequently brings my Computer to a halt.
Doesn't Google offer a way to pay instead of seeing Google ads?
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