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Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by Legend2440 on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:59PM (#46284617)
Adblockers are still working fine though? I’m on chrome with ublock and I’m not seeing any ads.
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Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by anonym29 on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:07PM (#46284660)
you're not using ublock, you're using ublock lite. it cannot do dynamic filtering, script blocking, or url parameter removal, among other limitations.
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Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by charcircuit on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:42AM (#46285509)
Why does that matter if he's not seeing ads. A severely crippled adblocker means that you would see ads during regular usage.

Additionally, Brave a chromium based browser has adblocking built into the browser itself meaning it is not affected by webextention changes and does not require trusting an additional 3rd party.

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Re:8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" e... by ozgrakkurt on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @02:44AM (#46285829)
Tracking is also very important. Blocking scripts is very useful
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