Phew. Is just a bandwidth issue. This goofy title made me think advertisers found a way around ad blockers.
Google built an entire browser and used Manifest V3 as an excuse to cripple ad blockers.
Companies are also paying influencers, twitch streamers, and YouTubers to promote their products in a way that conventional ad blockers can't prevent.
The very interesting thing is that none of Google's ads have ever made it through this new version of Ublock for me.
Which I'm okay with in the same sense that I'm okay with newspaper/magazine ads or billboards or TV/radio commercials: they're annoying, but easy to ignore compared to online ads chewing up CPU time and battery life while actively violating one's privacy.
Yet. One day someone will create an ad blocker with machine learning that "sees" the ads and deletes them in real time. Should work on all content types, even on augmented reality.
> Based on the URL that are being requested at Cloudflare, it violates our ToS as well. All the requests are txt file extension which isn't a web content
> you cannot use Cloudflare to cache or proxy the request to these text files
This does not mean banned.
They didn’t ban the whole organization, but effectively told them to stop. I don’t see a difference.
CF didn't do this. They sent them an email telling them that what they were doing was a violation of their TOS and to cease doing it. They did not kill off their account. They still have the option to comply and continue with CF, which seems to be what they are going to do at the moment.
Hopefully, CF will grant them amnesty on this one. At the end of the day, an HTML file is just a text file, so I don't see why this would have even mattered to begin with.
Do you have a source for that? The article only mentions them being throttled + the screenshot with the support engineer saying they seem to be breaking the ToS and asking them politely to move back into compliance.