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Perhaps because it was costing them money and making their tracking data less valuable. Perhaps if AdNauseam stopped the clicking portion the ban would be lifted.

>>optimu+(OP)
Making their tracking data useless is kind of the point of the extension. Obviously it's well within Google's interests to stop people using it. I guess if you're privacy minded it's probably best not to use a browser made by a giant ad company.

>>optimu+(OP)
I think you're right, uBlock Origin is working fine for me on Chrome at the moment.

>>optimu+(OP)
This is MY user agent, not google's. I should be able to install whatever the fuck add on I want on it. Removing the add on from computer where it was already installed is incredibly user hostile.

So I installed Firefox and adNauseam on it. I was not a user before.

>>cqz+z1
I'm not sure how I'd feel if something like this became widespread and I was paying Google for clicks.

Well. I guess that's the point. But then surely it's fairly understandable for Google to try and stop them - at least on their own turf?

Google doesn't fund Chrome out of a sense of altruism - they want to have control over those aspects of the web-browsing ecosystem that potentially threaten their bottom line.

And here is that strategy behaving exactly as it should. You want the stuff Google has paid to build? You probably have to accept that "I want to automatically hide and click ads" falls under the banner of "maybe you should use a different browser then".

>>optimu+(OP)
I hope that means what they're doing is effective and this publicity leads to wider adoption, then. The current form of user-data-vacuuming advertising and the business models it enables are the worst things to happen to the Web certainly, and probably to consumer computer tech more generally. It can't die fast enough.

>>andyba+24
> they want to have control over those aspects of the web-browsing ecosystem that potentially threaten their bottom line.

That’s exactly what they can’t do, and where antitrust laws come in.

Google has to run Chrome out of altruism, or not at all.