@lain Same writer: https://www.osnews.com/story/135373/google-gives-adblockers-in-chrome-another-year-as-it-postpones-manifest-v3/

> Chrome is an advertising delivery platform first and foremost, and anyone with even a hint of foresight and a disdain for ads should’ve switched to Firefox years ago. At this point, using Chrome is self-inflicted.

https://www.osnews.com/story/130390/adblocking-how-about-nah/

> EME is the first crack in the wall that protected browsers from those who would thwart adversarial operability and take “how about nah?” off the table, leaving us with the kind of take-it-or-leave-it Web that the marketing industry has been striving for since the first pop-up ad.

https://www.osnews.com/story/26862/google-removes-adblockers-from-play-store/

> As for adblocking in and of itself – I never had much of a problem with it, despite OSNews running (a very limited set of) ads. In the end, your computer is your own, and you, and only you, get to decide what gets stored in your RAM or what gets displayed on your screen. If you do not want ads on your computer, then you have the right to block them client-side.

https://www.osnews.com/story/30762/the-effect-of-ad-blocking-on-user-engagement-with-the-web/

> I, too, use ad blockers on all my browsers and devices – and I can safely say that if ad blockers didn’t exist, I’d be spending a lot less time reading websites online. Note that this study was performed by Mozilla employees.


I could keep going...

So... Other, dumber people should watch ads and make his services free. Not him though.