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Google's Idiotic War on AdBlock [video] (youtube.com)
5 points by non-chalad 14 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



> As Youtube amps up their aggressive campaign to disable Ad-Blockers... they simultaneously fail to moderate verified advertisers using their services to push tens of thousands of scam ad campaigns onto their viewers.

> At a certain point the level of moderation failure becomes very hard to ignore, especially if they are attempting to remove the primary tool by which people avoid engaging with these deceptive and sometimes criminal advertisements.


>The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker:

>Fake ads in search results are taking users to phishing sites and spreading malware

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-fbi-now-recommends-using-...




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