I remember there was a bug (or intended behavior?) of people getting their accounts banned for certain kinds of mundane chat messages in live streams and I'm a little spooked that the same will happen with the recent escalation in the adblocking arms race.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Depends on how many users are actually using an adblocker. Last I saw, about 10 million users were using Ublock or adblockers in general. If we assume that reflects the real number of users, then it’s a tiny percentage of Google product users and banning them isn’t that big of a deal - unless large companies also use adblockers in which case, it’s probably easier to surrender than to keep fighting.

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