YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?

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[–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The advertising companies, Google & Facebook, absolutely do understand this and are happy to mistreat small companies.

The worst part of using Google Search without uBlock is that if I'm just trying to get to a specific website without typing out the full html address, I have to scroll passed the top result which is an advert for the website I already typed.

Google charges companies for customers they already had.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's even worse than that. The ad is often a fake version of the website you are looking for. Ublock protects you from phishing and malware.

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