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I've seen a few ads from them on YouTube promoting their ad blocker, specifically touting that it gets around YouTube's efforts to block ad blockers.

I thought it was interesting that YouTube, in the midst of trying to crack down on ad blockers, allows ads promoting an ad blocker that is specifically claiming to evade that crackdown.

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I wonder if there could be anti-trust aspects to cracking down on such ads.

Nah, just Occam's Razor. Pie Inc. payments went through and it's cheaper for YouTube to run whatever instead of paying to people to curate such ads.

Youtube ads are less moderated than youtube videos. They know where the money is.

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