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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by saghm on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:06PM (#49524799)
No disagreement here! My point is more that the bar for what's enough to be a safety issue in ads is actually extraordinarily low, which is exactly why I don't have any qualms about using the strictest measures possible to block all ads even as someone who, at least in my own perception, is pretty tech savvy.

In my mind, the entire ad industry is basically not worth enabling. I'm not nearly as concerned with the hypotheticals of "what if literally everyone started using ad blockers and ad-supported content disappeared?"; that's firmly in the "I don't know, but it's a problem I'd definitely prefer to have to what we have right now" bucket.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by account42 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:58AM (#49533196)
That hypothetical isn't even a problem. That we need ads to support freely available stuff online is a myth that the advertising industry wants you to believe but people have been sharing their creations long before everything came with an ad. And much of what you see on ad-supported sites today isn't even funded by those ads, only the hosting is.
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