I remember there was a bug (or intended behavior?) of people getting their accounts banned for certain kinds of mundane chat messages in live streams and I’m a little spooked that the same will happen with the recent escalation in the adblocking arms race.

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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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Sometimes I get those pop ups when I’m reading news from outlets with millionaire pundits like CNN or NBC, and I always gleefully click on “I’ll disable my adbloxker next time”

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The more pathetic the message, the more gleeful I get. “Motherfucker, I am below the poverty level, and you are literally Reuters.”

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I take those motherfuckers out with Ublock’s element picker and zapper. No more half measures.

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I’ve never got any of those popups and I use Firefox + uBlock Origin

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I have that for my laptop, and all is well, but there’s no similar combo that works on my elderly tablet.

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That’s part of the concern. We never even see the warnings, but they still know we’re blocking ads. Next they shrug and lock our accounts, because “but muh ad revenueee!”

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