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Re:Google is exploring blocking AdBlocker on YouTube by jeffbee on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:54AM (#35917183)
The cost is you have to give another party total access to all of your data on all sites.
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Re:Google is exploring blocking AdBlocker on YouTube by StrangeATractor on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:02AM (#35917297)
What? You download a blocklist. What gets sent back to ublock?
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Re:Google is exploring blocking AdBlocker on YouTube by dnedic on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:58AM (#35917245)
Except it's open source and anyone can audit the code any time.
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Re:Google is exploring blocking AdBlocker on YouTube by bagacrap on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:02AM (#35917299)
If the developer's extension store account were compromised or sold, they'd push an update to you that stole your data before you could react.
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Re:Google is exploring blocking AdBlocker on YouTube by HWR_14 on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:35AM (#35917682)
You don't have to auto-update extensions.
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