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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1036 points deryilz | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.818s | source
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breve ◴[12 Jul 25 21:51 UTC] No.44545498[source]▶
The best bypass is to use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

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aziaziazi ◴[13 Jul 25 09:14 UTC] No.44548771[source]▶
I can’t help seeing ad blockers as fairless content consumption, like choosing to download films, musics and books without paying the creator and the distributor (VOD, MOD, concerts, libraries…). Sounds great for you but how would that work if everyone would do the same?

Although we all be happy to se more competition, using an ad blocker on Google sites (and G-add financed-sites) have no positive effect for the competitors.

Don’t take me wrong, I hate Ads and Google methods but we can’t all rob the same store and hope there will be infinite food on the shelves and that the next store will benefit from that.

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1. gpvos ◴[13 Jul 25 15:31 UTC] No.44551120[source]▶
I wouldn't mind if Google et al. went bankrupt. Only Youtube would be somewhat of a loss.
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2. throwaway77385 ◴[14 Jul 25 16:28 UTC] No.44562027[source]▶
Alphabet has unfortunately reached a size where it is completely self-sustaining and acts outside of 'normal' market forces affecting businesses that need to make something or sell a certain volume of products. They just keep growing because now it's a good investment to have. There's a few companies like this now. They could just completely stop doing anything tomorrow and they'd probably remain one of the biggest market-caps in existence for decades.