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Aurornis on July 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

If a major adblocker used a bug or security vulnerability to work around restrictions, it would have been patched away immediately.

The uBlock team was never going to ship code that depended on a bug to work.

r4indeer on July 13, 2025 [–]

I fully agree. The original comment and the other replies to it are bewildering. There was nothing to gain here, yet people are throwing ad hominem attacks left and right.

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