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Google could bundle a real ad blocker that used internal only apis.

That's the real dishonesty. Disabling the public API, claiming "because privacy", and ignoring the most popular use case for those apis.

Fwiw, Google isn't disabling any ability to use the apis to record, store, and forward, everything you do on the web. The only thing being disabled is canceling a request, based on live heuristics, before it happens. What privacy hole does that close?

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They're not ignoring the use case. As the article notes, the new API will work fine with blockers like Adblock Plus.

It reduces the effectiveness of adblockers, see commentary from them. Without helping privacy or security. The privacy and security issues of web extensions remain.

vendors like Adblock Plus are paid by Google (and others) to allow their ads to not be blocked.

It is the same company that bought the uBlock clone, including the domain name, so they can mislead people and give them the illusion of adblocking.

That wasn't a clone. That was the original project.

Hill wanted to stop working on it, handed it off, and then it got bought by evil Germans. Then, he released and maintained an unfucked/original version: µblock origin

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