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  • Enshittification of Adblock Plus

    From The Running Man@running_man@writeable.com to alt.privacy on Mon Nov 24 09:13:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

    I've noticed that more and more ads are being shown when I
    have Adblock Plus installed. Even when I have "Acceptable
    ads" disabled I still see Google Ads appear on certain
    sites.

    So this seems to be the endgame for many ad-blockers: allow
    ads through when the advertising network pays you.

    I've now switched to uBlock Origin, which is still effective.
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  • From Francis Strelok@fr@nc@strelok.com to alt.privacy on Tue Nov 25 21:13:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

    On Nov 24, 2025, The Running Man wrote
    (in article<c+7RYKJhVvYn7BP5Xk7brDWFPawV4Ax9nilp55PCMhE=@writeable.com>):

    I've noticed that more and more ads are being shown when I
    have Adblock Plus installed. Even when I have "Acceptable
    ads" disabled I still see Google Ads appear on certain
    sites.

    So this seems to be the endgame for many ad-blockers: allow
    ads through when the advertising network pays you.

    I've now switched to uBlock Origin, which is still effective.

    Unfortunately seems to be the case.

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