They’re not “making up an injustice.” Google is actively trying to stop ad blocking, this is a fact. You can argue whether or not it’s as severe as some people make it sound or whether people should be upset at all (I think we should be), but let’s not act like this was made up whole cloth.
replyI've seen some teams in YouTube try and stop ad blocking, but I haven't seen Google, or more importantly Chromium try and stop it.
reply1) YouTube is owned by Google and their entire revenue model is in alignment with how Google does things, which ublock origin interferes with.
reply2) Manifest v3 is Google’s, not YouTube’s, project.
Manifest v3 doesn't stop ad blockers. In fact the chromium team worked together with ad block developers to adjust the design of Manifest v3 to better allow for them to be implemented.
reply* https://www.pcmag.com/news/googles-next-chrome-update-will-f...
reply> As The Next Web explains, Manifest V3 doesn’t explicitly ban ad blockers, but it does “cap the number of filtering rules an extension can apply and eliminate the dynamic blocking that makes tools like uBlock Origin effective against rapidly evolving ad-delivery systems.”
* https://9to5google.com/2026/06/15/google-chromes-next-update...
* https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/browsers/google-chromes-...
> Manifest V3 will cap the number of filtering rules an extension can apply, which could theoretically foil ad blockers' attempts to respond to the latest ad-deployment technology.