• TeoTwawki@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “We’ll make our service worse, that’ll show them!”

    Ok google, good luck with that.

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      10 months ago

      Unless you inform those customers with some kind of UI that they’re being throttled because of ad-block how does Google expect them to uninstall it?

      I genuinely believe they are trying to push adblock users off the platform completely

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      10 months ago

      At this point I’m convinced they’re trying to drive people away to shrink the overhead on bandwidth and servers, but it doesn’t work like that. Not after you got them hooked on videos of cats after years of a steady drip of memes.