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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by PaulHoule on Thursday January 01, 2026 @09:46AM (#46454528)
I’m sure they’d love to include a blocker in Chrome that blocks all the competitive ad networks.
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by saintfire on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:33AM (#46454863)
If they'd ever allow such a thing to exist.
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by moffkalast on Thursday January 01, 2026 @01:07PM (#46456371)
Why waste effort on something that's a rounding error at best?
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by like_any_other on Thursday January 01, 2026 @01:31PM (#46456646)
It is because of such effort that they are rounding errors: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/google-loses-ad-...
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by trinix912 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @01:31PM (#46456642)
But then they'd be one antitrust investigation away from losing it all.
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by CrossVR on Friday January 02, 2026 @09:37AM (#46465149)
What do you think uBlock Lite is for? They'll continue to cripple it until it is unable to block YouTube ads while still being able to block everything else.
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