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Legal - "If users can render ads invisible we can't claim they're seeing them, and we can't charge people for them."

Accounting - "We want to charge for ads, that's where all the money comes from."

Legal - "Yah we can take this feature out, accessibility laws are a joke."

Devs - "whelp, ok"

There is none. The comment is from some random gmail account, it doesn't mean anything.

Maybe someone has a patent on this, and accounting said "we're not gonna pay" and legal said "we don't want to get sued"?

In one of the comments it mentions that the author style sheets allow users to hide ads and make it easy to kill sponsored results!

Making it too easy to violate TOS, maybe.