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Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months agothey still try that?
i can’t remember the last time i have seen one of those warnings.
The business cycle dictates that companies try to re-implement bad ideas every six months to two years.
If the idea was good, they’d have implemented it and made their money. Only bad ideas are still ripe for exploitation and new economic growth, because you haven’t had someone as smart as me to make them work right.
I’m guessing you use Firefox? It’s much better at evading that tracking.
Nah I saw it on FF as well. Forcing an update on the “Quick Fixes” blocklist on uBlock Origin got rid of it.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Google doesn’t do global roll outs with their updates. The anti adblock stuff especially. They target only some % of randomly selected users to spread confusion online, and I would guess their hope is to frustrate people into disabling ad blockers on Youtube after reading a bunch of misinformation and placebo bad advice when looking for tech support.