The passive-aggressive "I'm just a smol bean multinational media conglomerate and you've blocked ads on my page 
" messages that sometimes make it through my adblocker certainly feel like a precursor to more punitive action.
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I guess there's a chance but i think the backlash would be massive. People's entire lives are on google
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well now it's laythed
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I would have said no but then Twitter started charging it's users so now I'm pretty sure literally anything is possible
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Probably not, but if you're really concerned the way I view YT is probably worth doing. mpv/youtube-dl (yt-dlp) while grabbing links from the browser but never actually viewing a video in it. I have a way to autoplay videos in mpv when clicked in my browser, there's also browser add-ons like ff2mpv
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Hmm. Hadn't considered it. But it is a reason to transition everything to protonmail.
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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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Do it, cowards. Free me from that coil
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