YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet

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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
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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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Also having zero problems here paying for it.

Paying isn't a bad idea if you want to do that.

Google creeping on your privacy and your right to view HTML the way you choose to is gross and violating.

These two ideologies don't have much overlap, and definitely can coexist separately.

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