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On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:12:58 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

>And if I can't visit your site with an adblocker, well, there are
>billions of other websites I can frequent instead.

Don't count on that decision being made on a per-website basis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17wu2gz/google_confirms_they_will_disable_ublock_origin/

Google isn't really a tech company, they're an advertising company
that just happens to leverage technology as part of their primary
business strategy.

True technology companies like Microsoft that earn most of their
revenue from software and cloud services are more trustworthy.

I've said for decades free and open source ain't free.  It just takes
longer for it to rear its ugly head.