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Is there any risk of google escalating to banning accounts for adblocking? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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!”