But I'm not advocating people treat this as any less important/urgent. The consequences of this change are clear: uBlock/uMatrix would break, this is bad, and it needs to be fixed. However at this point in time, it's an open issue, on an open bug tracker, and Google should be given space to adjust before we can actually declare they're doing this on purpose.

If the change goes through despite the issue being known, that is bad, and that will be a clear sign they don't care that adblockers are getting shut out. Still won't be proof it was intended to do that, but at least there's a different level of outrage you can apply to it.

This is not about who does or doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. It's about not having knee-jerk reactions to headlines. In the current political climate, that should be given some serious thought.

Edit: In fact, so far the only thing this thread has achieved is having people go in the issue tracker and leave their comment. You can guess what will happen next: Outrage and abuse in the comment section, followed by a lock, because of fucking course they should lock when there's abuse. This happens every damn time there's a github issue being linked on HN.

What this behaviour does is it prevents an actual discussion from happening.