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the browser did limit the capabilities of adblockers quite drastically lately, but this is surly a coincidence.

People keep saying that. There are two problems with that, namely ① Google's own ads are easy to block using the new API and ② the new API is effective at blocking various evil attacks. If Google wanted to get rid of ad blockers, I'm sure they could come up with an API that does a better job than that.

https://textslashplain.com/2024/10/13/content-blocking-in-ma... shows a ten-line ad blocker that blocks Google's ads, https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670 is a list of polite email messages from people who'd like to have elevated access to browsers.

Don't forget about YouTube!

What about YouTube?

uBlock Origin Lite blocks YouTube ads just fine.

Not for everyone.

Do you really think Google wouldn't do anything about as blockers? Especially now that no ads is one of the selling points of YouTube Premium?

Have you tried? There's a strength setting to the extension. At max strength it's been blocking all YT ads for a while.

And it doesn't matter what I think about it. I'm giving you facts not opinions.

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