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by DanBC 3260 days ago
But in the example given the reason the software doesn't work isn't because it needs ads. It's because the ad blocker is broken.
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It's applying a heuristic that triggers a false positive in many cases. Most ad blocking rulesets do tend to include very basic rules like that. I don't know how many ads they actually still catch but if it's a significant number then it's probably a justified one.