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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by EA-3167 on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:00AM (#36536082)
Some ads also contain(ed) crypto miners and malware in general, in addition to all of what you said. My feeling is that Google should be free to do what they feel they have to, and ad-blockers should feel free to engage in an arms race with them.

The worst that happens is Google drives away a chunk of its user base, opening the door for competition.

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by howinteresting on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:45AM (#36537064)
Google controls the vast majority of the "user agents" on the internet, and I suspect Manifest v3 has some role to play in this.
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