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Whoa that's messed up, I have this installed on FF. I wonder why they would go after this and not ublock origin first, if the goal is to ban these type plugins.
uBlock is too widespread and well-known at this point, they do this to smaller projects because they can and they know that it won't cause as much of a pushback from the general public.
They tried to kill the API uBlock uses some time ago And banned AdNauseam. I think uBlock is just too big and popular to be directly banned.
I'm sure you're onto something, but I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "this type of plugins".
From what I gather, UBlock is problematic to Google because it blocks Google Ads. And that's a bit different to what ClearURLs do. The reason ClearURLs is problematic to Google is because of the 'amp' links, which are links that make it possible for Google to track those who click them.
So yeah, I guess both piss off Google, but in different ways: one makes it harder to extract data from you, their product (since your data constructs an amazing model, to which companies bid access to when purchasing ads), while the other blocks the delivery of the ads.
Slow and steady is a better practice than going for the big ones outright.
People are not predictable and they need to be sure this wont affect their business by creating a trend. On second thought it is a bit surprising that no tiktok trend has exploded where they instruct people to block ads with uBlock.