[Tsubasachan]

In my opinion its not really a conspiracy. People at Google are so far up their own ass that they don't understand the importance of content blockers. Personally I just can't deal with websites without ublock modifying them.

[rajeshmr]

Exactly, the experience on the web is much better with ad blockers!

EDIT : I think my first comment triggered a bit of discussion. I also don't think there is any conspiracy (conspiracy is a big word :) ) - because I didn't intend to portray it that way. What I did want to convey, from the vantage point of a user, is that the priorities didn't seem to align.

[feanaro]

Depends on what you consider a "conspiracy". The word "conspiracy" sounds unnecessarily controversial and mysterious. It seems plausible and probable to me that there are economic motivating factors at play.

[ardy42]

A conspiracy is just more than one person getting together to plan to do something wrong or illegal.

[rajeshmr]

Indeed. It seems plausible!

[tyingq]

The initial proposal was for a static list of blocked uris, and no api to add an item to the list.

That really speaks to a conspiracy to me. What plausible reason would there be for that? You would have had to push a new version of an extension to change the list. There's no way that omission was an "oopsie".

They did back off on that.

[ganeshkrishnan]

I don't think they are far up their ass. They don't give two shits on a popsicle what tech users think. They have an absolute monopoly on almost everything on the internet. Apps, ads, search, phones, browser. Where we gonna go if they kick us out?