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Youtube's tantrum escalates.

Forced to concede that they cannot outpace ad blocking extensions, parent company Google artificially limits the rate of extension updates in Chrome.

No justification for the user experience is given, and in fact this makes chrome users more vulnerable to attacks injected via ads.

arstechnica.com/google/2023/12

Ars Technica · Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updatesWhen ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slower.