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These are not comparable practices.

Google is a search monopoly. Republishing search results to keep users on Google (rather than the publisher) is literally stealing content and the pageviews the content generated.

As a user, blocking programmatic ads (such as those served by ad marketplaces) is the only way to browse the web safely.

Websites are free to use affiliate links, subscriptions, donations, non-marketplace ads, or any other safe monetization strategy. I will not apologize for blocking the unsafe monetization strategies.




Specifically, we already know how to display ads:

  <a href="..."><img src="..."/></a>
Anything which uses javascript to display ads is by definition malware, and should be treated accordingly.




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