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>>neelc+(OP)
Somehow I am not convinced that Ad blockers are such big of a problem for Google. Especially when these are not used much on Mobil, and the world is clearly transitioning to Mobil.

Do we know the financial impact ad blockers are thought to have?

I’m guessing ad fraud is a way bigger problem, although some would argue that add fraud is not googles problem, it still hurts Google.

Maybe it’s also a third thing I just can’t think of right now, ad blocks just seem to niche to me. How about just enforcing a stronger monopoly on user tracking?

>>rand84+js
There's indeed more than Ad blockers to this matter. Web scrapers became a major issue since they realized the great economical potential of LLMs and AI in general. Incumbents may wish to make it hard for competitors to run their own bots.