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Google to stop listening in temporarily after data leak

9 pointsby strooperalmost 6 years ago

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xthestreamsalmost 6 years ago
I always keep my ad-blocker off by default, because in general I want to support websites that show ads, except when they get in my way. I had my ad-blocker deactivated when I visited this link, and this is what I saw:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;BTkP6TL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;BTkP6TL</a><p>(huge pop-up telling me to deactivate my ad-blocker in order to read the article, even if it was already deactivated).<p>Ironically, I then activated my ad-blocker for that website and the popup went away. Such idiotic practices.