"against all odds" my left asshole. This is always the way of hacker vs defense, it's always an arms race and the attacking side always has the advantage.
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Could Google and ad services sue Firefox and extension writers?
I mean, nothing pisses off corporations more than someone coming between them and revenue, and the courts tend to agree.
No, it is your right to choose what code is executed in your browser and which isn’t. There’s a case to be made about accepting the EULA but if you never registered a Google account, then you never accepted any EULA. This is not the case with modded android/iOS apps as in those cases you are violating DMCA 1201.
YouTube's users when they adhere to the YouTube TOS:
quoth Rage Against The Machine:
'fuck you, I won't do what you tell me'
And I am fucking loving it. With this move, Google has effectively started an arms race between the team they have implementing this Adblock-blocking crap and the vast majority of the technically competent internet users in the world.
Unless the rules of how the internet works fundamentally change, Google is not going to win.