No they didn't. Adguard works fine. Ublock has been dragging its feet, but that's on Ublock. Yes, I know, there were all those clickbait headlines. I saw them too, and people got super upset when you pointed out the clickbait and that adblockers would in fact still work. Well here we are, and lo, adblockers still work.

There's plenty enough of shitty things Google actually does and did, no point in inventing easily disprovable ones.

Mind you, the fact Google could change APIs further to actually prevent adblocking is on its own a sufficient reason to foster competing browsers, so let's perhaps focus on that.