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I was asked to comment by Thomas Claburn from The Register[1]:

The most concise summary I can come up with is in the article:

> Google's primary business is incompatible with unimpeded content blocking.

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[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/29/google_webrequest_a...

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More folks should read the 10-K [0], as it is pretty interesting. Among other things, it does say that content-blocking tools pose a threat to Google's advertising business, and that Chrome is important to Google's product lineup.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000165204416...

That is their 2015 10-K interesting to see that:

    "New technologies could block online ads, 
    which would harm our Google business."

has been amended to

    "New and existing technologies could affect 
    our ability to customize ads and/or could 
    block ads online, which would harm our 
    business."

So clearly Google now considers existing ad-blocking technology to be a threat to their business.

https://seekingalpha.com/filing/4328532

Thank you for keeping the web usable. Cheers!

Thanks for your hard work, you have made the web massively more useful for hundreds of millions of people.

Never give up the fight.

Do you collect any stats for overall ads blocked?, I wonder how much $$ damage you did to Google finances since you launched your extensions on Chrome and Firefox.

There is no damage being done by ad blocking, please don't use such language.

That depends on whether you consider "lost income" to be damage. If I had a webpage or an ad business, for me it would be damage.

Then you could start calculating things like - if a malicious ad spread ransomware and it hit some company and its network... etc.

Nobody is giving me money, I consider this to be lost income, therefore everyone is doing me damage. /s

In all seriousness though, this line of thinking is, at best, going to feel like constant victimisation if one engages in it far too often. Don't be surprised if people don't go out of their way to give you money they don't have to give you in order to get what they want in the way they want it. Lost revenue refers to revenue you could've captured if you had done things differently, so do them differently. If there's any damage done, it's damage you did to yourself.

To my knowledge ublock origin/umatrix do not spy on their users in this manner.

> I wonder how much $$ damage you did to Google finances since you launched your extensions on Chrome and Firefox.

I wonder how much $$ damage google does to us by loading unwanted and unnecessary adds on our (metered or limited) internet lines.

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