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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I noticed yesterday and it’s also affecting other sites where Google serves ads, like Reddit.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t use Chrome so whatever they did is affecting Adblock elsewhere too.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Everyone else has switched to Ublock Origin adblocker years ago :) Try it, it's the only real one

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

It’s not on iOS or I would. I use uBlock on my PC.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

10+years ago since they annouced the whitelisting of adlbock plus around that time.it was around the same time youtube to started drastically increasing thier advertisements.