Why Is Google Blocking This Ad-Blocker on Chrome?

Re:Why Is Google Blocking This Ad-Blocker on Chrome? by majewsky on Thursday January 19, 2017 @09:02AM (#13435782)

The choice of method is very deliberate on the side of the developer [1]. It's not like they didn't consider whether they should, it's just that you don't agree with their reasoning.

[1] Quoting from the article:

> [The developer] said that AdNauseam is “definitely an activist tool” that intentionally and deliberately is “trying to show that this hostile disrespect for online privacy would be met with hostility on the part of the users.”

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Re:Why Is Google Blocking This Ad-Blocker on Chrome? by nailer on Thursday January 19, 2017 @09:16AM (#13435893)

Tracking isn't "hostility and disrespect": it's remembering people to show them a thing they liked before. There are many easy ways for web users not to be remembered.

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Re:Why Is Google Blocking This Ad-Blocker on Chrome? by AstralStorm on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:49PM (#13438893)

Please mention some of them.

I get Google bubbled all the time and receive either targeted ads or nag screens from Google itself. I would love to be able to use Gmail without such issues.

Additionally many sites fail to work properly unless certain tracking JavaScript is enabled.

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Re:Why Is Google Blocking This Ad-Blocker on Chrome? by nailer on Friday January 20, 2017 @08:49AM (#13443727)

Sure.

1. Start an incognito window.

2. Tell Google you prefer untargeted ads.

Re: 2, Google also has a cool search engine you can use to learn about things like how to stop ads from remembering you.

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