Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

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Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

Google isn't just disabling an extension, they're attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.

If Google presented me with ads for things I might be interested in and in a non-invasive way, wouldn’t mind looking at them at all.

Instead I get ads for the seemingly random shit I have absolutely zero interest in buying. How they are consistently wrong about my spending habits is unbelievable. I have two fucking hobbies! I don’t see ads for anything relating to them. Ever.

Ad blockers block more than just shitty ads. They also block malicious ads.

Also, there's like 10 per webpage, and then you have the damn pop-ups when you scroll 🤬

You're correct, and now people will boycott Chrome. Firefox and Brave are good / accessible / easy to get for most people so...