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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
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Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You can just purge the cache in uBlock Origin and update the filterlists, that will fix the issue too.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Having Ublock Origin doesn't guarantee success, read this: https://lemmy.world/comment/4933251

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    You're linking to one instance where it partially fixed the issue amidst a sea of people saying updating filters did work for them (or saying that they didn't have to do anything at all).

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