• hiddengoat@kbin.social
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    Fully blocking only if you aren’t using uBlock Origin, which you just have to update the filters on.

    Complete waste of effort.

    Alphabet needs to be broken up.

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      This effort I don’t believe was targeting people like most of what you would find here.

      This ad-block ban, was mostly targeted at people who didn’t know what an ad-blocker was and didn’t want to have to deal with having to get banned.

      If Alphabet(google) is actually serious about blocking ad-blockers, I would be surprised. Mostly because Microsoft has had more experience with this, also has billions, and even they quit.

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        IF? Are you paying attention to what’s going on with Chrome?

        Google is introducing a bullshit system that will ultimately let them control what the browser can and can’t display.
        They are working to eliminate ad blockers entirely.

        Their entire fucking goal is to lock down YOUR FUCKING BROWSER so they can send you any ads they want, at any time they want, without them even having to be served through a website. They also want to push their “security” bullshit so that if you’re using a non-Chrome browser you get excluded from the internet.

        And right now the overwhelming majority of browsers are Chrome based.

        The EU will likely not let this happen, but the US has no balls when it comes to carving up shitbags these days.

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      Until they start banning accounts for violating the tos. Then people with 20 years of emails are going to be lost without them.

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          I don’t believe that it really would have to. Any official government accounts likely are tied to the government Google organization. If you are talking about private accounts then Google can use the horde of data they have to tie government officials to private accounts.

          Overall though, this is also following the belief that anyone in the government is smart enough to use ad blockers which I have my doubts. I don’t think any real high up government official uses ad block.

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            They probably don’t.

            If you’re talking about when they’re in the office and on the job, chances are they’re not using Chrome at all, they’re using IE or Edge (depending on the Windows version deployed these days), with group policy pushed out from the domain that prevents installing any additional software (note: this doesn’t prevent the use of portable installs of software, uncompressed to their Documents/ subdirectory or something) (but most of those folks don’t know anything about portable software).

            There is also a very good chance that they’re still blocking Youtube on NIPR for bandwidth management purposes.

            I’ve no idea if US .govs are using Google Orgs for anything these days. When I was still a Beltway Bandit it was all Exchange with Outlook, all the time.

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            Yes, shithead, the IT professionals tasked with setting up government computers do in fact know how to install a fucking browser extension.

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              Hey bad actor, stop name-calling if you want to have a conversation. There are a lot of limitations to the computers that government officials work on and what I said was clearly in jest. Most IT departments do not put in ad block on the preinstalled browsers in my experience and furthermore will block you with group policies from doing much with your computer.

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      Fully blocking only if you aren’t using uBlock Origin

      Not even that, I use Adblock Plus and have no trouble accessing Youtube and watching videos. Didn’t even need to update any filters, it just keeps working as-is.

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      It’s doing it on ublock origin again; are there updates * since Saturday?

      • corrected autocorrect