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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by josefx on Monday February 21, 2022 @12:17AM (#30412201)
Can't find any ads on NoScript.net with uBlock running and uniblue.com seems to have expired. However it is hilarious that the complaint comes from Ad block Plus, their entire business model is build around bypassing EasyList. For a generous fee they make sure that your ads are "acceptable".
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by Fnoord on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:27AM (#30414078)
What makes you think this comes from ABP? The article linked to is from 2016, they link to a history between NoScript and ABP. The article by ABP is from 2009 (!!). Back in the 2009, ABP was the defacto standard. There was no uBlock. There was NoScript, but no uMatrix yet.

The developer issued an apology and reverted the change, and apart from a Ghostery one (who are also shady) no further controversies are documented at [1]. Perhaps the Wikipedia article is incomplete, given the one linked is from 2016?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript

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