It is sad, but through the events of the last few years (Reddit, Twitter, politics) companies have realized they can do whatever they want. While they will lose a significant portion of users, the mass majority will stay. The ones that leave are the ones they can't abuse and they don't want them anyway. Profit is better taking advantage of the complacent and losing the activists than the other way around.

Anywho, I will move to Firefox just like I moved to lemmy. Although I'm not sure moving to Firefox actually fixes anything other than giving Google less money. Now I just need to figure out how to have a phone without apple or Google getting a peice.

Youtube started to show me an overlay telling me to disable my adblocker and a countdown timer before I could play the video.

I used my adblocker to block the overlay... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I never liked Chrome. The way it made sponsored search results a really difficult to see shade of yellow made me realise where their priorities were long ago.

As such I have always used Firefox.

Yes, I am feeling pretty smug right about now given how correct I am/was about Google pulling some even more dickish move with Chrome.

So is adblock like totally dead on chrome ?